TWEETS OF OLD
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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.
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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.
Pike’s Peak Consolidated Coal Co. now has thirteen men at the mines. We are not superstitious but 13 – ugh, it makes us shiver.
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Mrs. J.C. Anderson, a giddy young thing, and the mother of 16 children, has run away with a big-trousered dude 25 years of age. OH1889
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