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Newspaper
Springfield Globe Republic
Location
Springfield, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1885
Page
2
An extended, disjointed mix of publishing notices, party politics, editorials, and sensational snippets. The text discusses publishing partnerships, gubernatorial candidates, prohibition debates, and a flood of miscellaneous items including crime, travel, and society notes with many misprints and partial names.
A traveling man at a Northern Company depot defuses a cowboy prank with a pistol. Cowboys taunt him and threaten, but he calmly reads a paper, offers three apples, then shoots them apart midair. The crowd grows wary as a quick draw tale ends with the cowboys leaving. The teller recalls a NYC speed shooter claim and notes tense frontier bravado on the dockside.
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