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[US] Mexico Wkly Ledger (MO) 25 Jan. 4/6: Any [...] person who shall cause [...] accumulation of [...] animal or vegetable matter or excrement of any kind thereon, whether in a backhouse, or [...] which will during the warm season of the year exhale offensive, unhealthy gases.
at backhouse (n.) under back, adj.2
[US] Mexico Wkly Ledger (MO) 23 Nov. 3/3: All kinds of cattle $everything rom a ‘canner’ cow to the finest export steer.
at canner, n.
[US] Mexico Wkly Ledger (MO) 10 Mar. 8/4: You hear much near profanity here — I heard a new coinage the other day — ‘contwist’. It means ‘blame it,’ ‘confound it,’ as I get it.
at contwisted, adj.
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