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[US] Wkly Messenger (St Martinsville, LA) 27 Mar. 3/2: The most successful hotel deadbeat [...] takes his ‘wife’ with him. This is done to throw the hotel man off his track, on the supposition that a man who takes his wife [...] has enough money to pay his bills.
at deadbeat, n.
[US] Wkly Messenger (St Martinville, LA) 13 Aug. 2/2: An afterclap always accompanys such events [...] he had just secured warrants for our arrests.
at after-clap, n.
[US] Wkly Messenger (St Martinsville, LA) 5 Sept. 2/3: The little girl chirked up wonderfully for a time.
at chirk (up), v.
[US] Wkly Messenger (St Martinville, LA) 23 May 1/2: Neither law nor justic required [...] that the accomodation should be equal — as good for a Senegambian as for a white man.
at Senegambian, n.
[US] Wkly Messenger (St Martinsville, LA) 27 Feb. n.p.: [advt] No penny-ante business at E.E. Soulier The Poor Man’s Friend One Price to All.
at penny ante, adj.
[US] Wkly Messenger (St Martinville, LA) 15 May 1/2: Both were euchred out when fairly and legally elected.
at euchred, adj.
[US] Wkly Messenger (St Martinsville, LA) 25 Nov. 2/2: The ring intended to capture the Fourth and Fifth ward, and defeat the antis in both.
at anti, n.
[US] Wkly Messenger (St Martinville, LA) 18 Feb. 1/4: The Louisiana Senator had been euchred by the Republicans.
at euchred, adj.
[US] Wkly Messenger (St Martinsville, LA) 5 Aug. 1/3: It was a put-up job to soak me .
at put-up job (n.) under put-up, adj.
[US] Wkly Messenger (St Martinsville, LA) 5 Aug. 1/3: It was a put-up job to soak me .
at soak, v.2
[US] Wkly Messenger (St Martinsville, LA) 18 June 2/3: Some of the leaders of that faction were pretty severe on the bolters.
at bolter, n.
[US] Wkly Messenger (St Martinsville, LA) 1 Apr. 1/2: If the sun should rise some morning at 2.30 it would find half the white population of Jennings in nigger town.
at niggertown, n.
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