02 Feb 1885
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Newspaper
Reno Evening Gazette
Location
Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1885
Page
1
A Western Michigan circuit judge known for honesty and eccentricities faced various cases. Anecdotes describe rulings against defense counsel, a harsh remark about credibility, and a chancery session where a lawyer overlonged. Other tales involve a Morfit case and a Detroit hotel murder hoax with a peeling plaster gag.
A humorous dialogue from an old traveling phrenologist about a failed lecture at a town with a new roller skating rink. He recalls the audience demanding refunds after his character readings went wrong, highlighting the crowd’s distraction by the rink. The scene leads into a gloss on discontent as a driver of progress and great deeds in human history.
A light descriptive sketch portrays daily scenes in the South with banjo players at railroad stations and on steamboats, outdoor gatherings by pine fires, and night songs. It mentions the pine wood, a legal tail premium in Dakota, and a dubious medicinal ad for Hecklen's Alpha Salve claimed to cure many skin ailments.
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