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Eve. Teleg. (Phila., PA) 20 Nov. 6/1: Jolterhead, the eminent photographic artist of Lower Pighurst, who has accomplished no end of cartes de visites of the mighty Bunglebutt.at jolterhead, n.
Eve. Teleg. (Phila., PA) 20 Nov. 6/1: Jolterhead, the eminent photographic artist of Lower Pighurst, who has accomplished no end of cartes de visites of the mighty Bunglebutt. Eve. Teleg. (Phila., PA) 21 Sept. 6/2: Dorey, you’re all hunk, you are.at all hunk, adj.
Eve. Teleg. (Phila.) 16 Aug. 6/4: He was that dead nuts on the machinery, as is, no doubt, werry wonderful, but don’t suit me.at dead nuts, adv.
Eve. Teleg. (Phila.) 16 Aug. 6/4: Oh, she did fly, that party, and said I was gross insultin’ of ’er.at party, n.1
Eve. Teleg. (Phila., PA) 1 June 6/2: We were regaled by an address by D. Rod Kneeking, Esq., S.P. (some punkins).at some pumpkins (n.) under pumpkin, n.
Eve. Teleg. (Phila.) 16 Aug. 6/4: The wine ain’t no great shakes.at great shakes (n.) under shake, n.1
Eve. Teleg. (Phila., PA) 28 Nov. 6/2: After the second bottle old Beeswing’s head gets completely muddled.at old, adj.
Eve. Teleg. (Phila.) 17 Aug. 8/2: William T. Dowdall having read brick Pomeroy out of the Democratic party, the latter replies by calling Dowdall an ‘idiotic, swill-headed chunk’.at swill-headed (adj.) under swill, n.
Eve. Teleg. (Phila., PA) 26 May 8/5: He was in the ‘boodle game’ [...] This ‘boodle’ business consisted in selling white paper to a man who proposed to buy counterfeit money.at boodle, n.1
Eve. Teleg. (Phila., PA) 1 Feb. 5/1-2: The Brace or Skin Faro Banks. [...] The term brace or skin is applied to houses where the robbing game only is used, where it impossible to win, and where the dealer can take your money if he chooses [...] There are in this city at present only two houses conducted as brace houses, although there is no house that that will not and does not at certain times and under certain circumstances take advantage of players, especially if they are uninformed and ignorant .at brace house, n.
Eve. Teleg. (Phila., PA) 1 Feb. 5/1: These games have their cappers and stool-pigeons constantly [...] ready to pick up anyone verdant enough to allow them to get into conversation with them.at stool-pigeon, n.1
Eve. Teleg. (Phila., PA) 1 Feb. 5/2: The principle skin-faro bank is located at no., 903 Chestnut Street [...] It would take up too much space to go into the details of the means employed, the perseverance, ingenuity, and devices used to entrap victims in these gambling hells.at skin, adj.1
Eve. Teleg. (Phila., PA) 1 Feb. 5/2: Besides the above gambling houses there are several others known as Snap-Houses where one can go and put up a certain amount of money and win with it or lose it, and pay the proprietor for the privilege.at snap house (n.) under snap, v.
Eve. Teleg. (Phila., PA) 1 Feb. 5/1: [headline] faro Fighting the Tiger — Where and How is is Done — The ‘Animal’ under a Cloud, and his Keepeers Discouraged.at tiger, n.
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