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Newspaper
Troy Herald
Location
Troy, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1878
Page
6
A collage of stray quips, poems, letters, and notices, including maxims, parrot anecdotes, a London grocer letter, a dogfight aside, and brief legal and moral phrases. It blends humor with odd snippets, quotes, and stray admonitions from an old newspaper page.
An amusing vignette from Presque Isle County near Mackinac shows a rough justice scene as Crawford, elected justice of the peace, enforces order after a wood chopper complains of a beating by a raftsman. The improvised court, with a single summons, swiftly settles the dispute in sixty seconds, underscoring frontier law and authority.
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