E. M. FOWLER, of Wayland, had an operation performed on his leg on Saturday, and more than a pint of pus was taken from the wound. His condition was much more favorable Monday morning.

from the Democrat & Chronicle, Aug. 7, 1888, Rochester, Monroe, New York

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The Atlanta Constitution says: “In Russia the girls carry dynamite in their back hair. In Georgia they carry it in their dear little eyes.”

-from the Richmond Dispatch, Richmond, Virginia, August 8, 1884, quoting the Atlanta Constitution.

note: Back then, “back hair” referred to the hair worn on the back side of the head.

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The city clerk of Cleveland, Ohio wants to tax clairvoyants.

-from the Mt. Vernon Signal, October 8, 1897, Mt. Vernon, Kentucky. one-line news brevity from a front page column of one-liners entitled “Current Topics”

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Three Icelandic lepers have arrived at the Lazaretto at Tracadie.They were brought from Winnipeg in a quarantine car.

-from The Evening Sun, New York, 1997

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All dudes are nincompoops.

-from a column of general brevities in The Semi-Weekly Bourbon News,  Paris, Kentucky,December 25, 1883

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A loaded wagon broke an axle on East Main street, yesterday morning. Street and railroad traffic was delayed almost an hour.

-from the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester, New York, 1882

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Squirrels are getting saucy and troublesome and have attacked children. When they get too gay, they will be eaten.

-from The Red Oak Sun, Red Oak,Iowa,  1911
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Pike’s Peak Consolidated Coal Co. now has thirteen men at the mines. We are not superstitious but 13 – ugh, it makes us shiver.

-from the Huerfano County News, January, 1901

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Mrs. W. H. Clausen gave birth to a healthy son weighing fifteen pounds. And yet old fogies croak about the degeneration of the human race.

-from the Burlington Hawkeye, Des Moines, Iowa,  March 19, 1874
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Council Bluffs is down with the mumps, and all the children in that lovely city are lopsided.

-from the Burlington Hawkeye, Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa, July 15, 1875

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