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Willing to Die and Political Banter in Patchy Dialect
In a Philadelphia Bulletin snippet a facetious canvasser asks if a subject is a bimetallist outside a gate. A porch scene shows a wary woman rejecting the insult with a terse retort about being a bifurcationist, while a parson and family in the background are depicted in garbled speech.
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Sanier
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Iit
Goves
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Duebiy
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Ghaye
Lutes
Korma
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Health Board
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Jude
Board of Health
Harris
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Philadelphia Bulletin