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Newspaper
Washington Telegraph
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1858
Page
4
A garbled snippet collection features beggars pleas and odd anecdotes. It includes stilted dialogue about coins, a schoolmaster’s lessons, a Mars riddle, comic remarks on surgeons and cataplasms, plus a boy’s quip about Pennsylvania. Other items describe a comic pig chase, a hooped-skirt mishap, a matrimonial ad, and a self described marriageable woman seeking a suitor with varied skills.
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