Wilds of New Jersey Measured in Local Lingo
Frank Malone notes in the St Paul Dispatch how travelers in Atlantic City or Long Branch would find New Jersey sparsely mapped yet full of curious local units. He recalls a storekeeper in a village speaking of Skeeter Swamp as two whoops away and a man in Skeeter Swamp calling Flytown about three chaws south, varying with pace and chawing.
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Taft's Tight Trousers
The Knoxville Sentinel recounts a childhood tale of President Taft and his mother forcing him into tight short duck trousers after they shrank in wash. Taft protests, saying they are tighter than his skin, but the mother insists they are not. The tale illustrates early discomfort with ill fitting clothing.
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