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Morn. Call (S.F.) 23 Aug. 2/2: Annie Wilson, who has pursed the unsavory calling of a ‘box rustler’ in a Kearny street dive, was [...] being tried on the charge of stealing $225 from David Morck [who] visited the den and accompanied Annie to a private box . Morn. Call (San Francisco) 28 Dec. 8/1: Husband, have you been hitting the booze again? Morn. Call (San Francisco) 28 Dec. 8/1: I could have pulled his leg for a broad-gauge jag, but I’m no sponge if I am poor. (con. 1861-5) Morn. Call (SF) 8 May 13/4: The question is often asked how whisky became known among the soldiers of the Army of the Potomac as ‘embalming fluid’. Morn. Call (San Francisco) 10 Aug. 16/5: In another can was a stew of meat and potatoes which did not look vey appetizing [...] known as a Ho-bo stew. Morning Call (San Francisco) 21 Aug. 11/4: The Jew was also saluted as ‘Ikey Mo’. Morn. Call (S.F.) 4 Dec. 12/4: Li Yurn opium is worth from $16 to $18 per five-tael tin. Morn. Call (San Francisco) 17 Nov. 3/4: The following letter was written November 6, 1891 [...] Dear Charlie: It can’t be possible that you are throwing me an ‘Irish hint’. Morn. Call (San Francisco) 18 June 12/2: It remains for citizens [...] to teach the shoulder-striker, the political heeler and the groggery-keeper that honesty is honesty. Morn. Call (SF) 23 June 12/3: The boys were [...] formally charged [...] They laughed [...] and played leapfrog in the cell called the birdcage. Morn. Call (San Francisco) 5 Sept. 7/5: Indeed Chinese Charlie is a character such as you don’t meet every day. Morn. Call (S.F.) 23 May 11/1: Slang rom London Streets [...] An inexperienced Jehu may be either a ‘gardener’ or a ‘whack’. Morn. Call (SF) 18 Feb. 11/2: By the Jumping moses, they monkey’s shot me. Morn. Call (SF) 9 Dec. 17: How do you like the new style of wearing the hair? It reminds me of an owl in an ivy bush. Morn. Call (S.F.) 23 May 11/1: Slang from London Streets [...] An inexperienced Jehu may be either a ‘gardener’ or a ‘whack’. Morn. Call (SF) 24 Jan. 3/2: The Nicaraguan scheme [...] was an attempt to canonize a new St Peter - the ‘Peter Funk of legislation.’ It was the glorification of the Cheap Johns of Congressional work. Morn. Call (SF) 24 Jan. 3/2: The Nicaraguan scheme [...] was an attempt to canonize a new St Peter - the ‘Peter Funk of legislation.’ It was the glorification of the Cheap Johns of Congressional work.