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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1877
Page
6
In Detroit Free Press style notes a bootblack nickels plot. A youth recounts stealing nine nickels from a rich man who supports his daughter, plans to woo and wed her, and foresees consequences if he betrays the plan. He brags of a con tied to a marriage scheme and threats of exposure.
A man on Duffield Street hires a boy to walk home with a bundle for fifteen cents. Lacking cash, the man offers to pay at his office at 2 pm. The boy insists on cash, and the man fetches change at a nearby grocery, fearing an unpleasant encounter with a cross eyed clerk and a bankruptcy remark.
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