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Watchman & Southron choose

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[US] Watchman & Southron (Sumter, SC) 3 Jan. 4/7: [advert] Rose Cordial for the cure of [...] Belly Ache.
at belly-ache, n.
[US] Watchman & Southron (Sumter, SC) 11 Apr. 1/6: The glass shutters [...] fell down, kerslam.
at kerslam! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
[US] Watchman & Southron (Sumter, SC) 20 Jan. 1/2: I biled up some herb tea, and sort of cossetted her [...] until she chirked up.
at chirk (up), v.
[US] Watchman & Southron (Sumter, SC) 23 Jan. 3/2: The comparison of a prima donna to Jervey’s chambermaid is that one was a sweet singer and the other a sheet slinger.
at sheet-slinger (n.) under sheet, n.
[US] Watchman & Southron (Sumter, SC) 4 Oct. 1/6: For the first fifty years in this country, clam shells were used for money. Originally in New York six pieces of ‘wampum’ or clamshells were worth a Dutch ‘stiver’.
at clam, n.2
[US] Watchman & Southron (Sumter, SC) 4 Oct. 1/6: For the first fifty years in this country, clam shells were used for money. Originally in New York six pieces of ‘wampum’ or clamshells were worth a Dutch ‘stiver’.
at wampum, n.
[US] Watchman & Southron (SC) 25 Jan. 4/1: There were hundreds of blind tiger joints running day and night.
at blind tiger, n.
[US] Watchman & Southron (Sumter, SC) 31 Aug. 3/3: Mr Folk said, God damn it, come in the road.
at god-damn it!, excl.
[US] Watchman & Southron (Sumter, SC) 11 Oct. 8/2: The unsuspecting folk, thinking the general some country cracker, subjected him to all manner of silly questions.
at country cracker (n.) under country, adj.
[US] Watchman & Southron (Sumter S.C.) 30 Oct. 20/3: All the Plute newspapers are asking you to [...] keep selling a bale of cotton at $60 and buying it back at $180. That’s the way to please the Privileged Few.
at plute, n.
[US] Watchman & Southron (Sumter, SC) 7 Aug. 8/2: The said wagon was hitched to two oldmand most appropriate ‘pestle-tailed’, box-ankled, flopped-eared blind and deaf, long-jawed mules.
at box-ankled (adj.) under box, n.1
[US] Watchman & Southron (Sumter, SC) 15 July 8/6: Lucious [sic] Fruit Given Away and Provide a Feast in Darkeytown [...] when six box cars loaded with watermelons were derailed.
at darktown (n.) under dark, n.
[US] Watchman & Southron (Sumter, SC) 30 June 6/3: Crowded? Well it seemed that everybody, his aunts, cousins, brothers-in-law, grand-parents and grandchildren had started [...] that hot Tuesday morning.
at everybody and his cousin, n.
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