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Detroit Free Press (MI) 31 Oct. 2/1: Ye crawling, cringing, hypocrites, you will swear on a stack of Bibles that gen. Taylor is a free soil man, in the face and yes of contrary assertions of his neighbors! Detroit Free Press (MI) 31 July 2/2: We give him credit for [...] presenting them as he does by an acknoiwledgement that he was ‘gassing’. Detroit Free Press (MI) 27 Apr. 2/2: If John [...] takes a Sabine slide with the money, what is the draft good for? Detroit Free Press 2 Sept. 1/3: If he took their [i.e. lawyers’] advice he would in all probability lose his shirt. Detroit Free Press (MI) 27 Dec. 3/5: He come down ker-whop, about ten feet from hwere we stood. Detroit Free Press (MI) 1 Feb. 2/3: Little Dickey is what Tom Benton called a shaky poke [...] when after a large family of children, the last [...] was known as a shake-poke. Detroit Free Press 4 July 4/1: How many a prayer went up, or down, to ‘Old Probabilities,’ who presides at the head of the last paragraph of the weather record, as reported from Washington. Detroit Free Press 14 Nov. 2/3: He has sat around the committee-room, like a bump on a log, throwing cold water on enthusiasm. Detroit Free Press (MI) 24 Aug. 2/5: A freakish, wayward, winsome bairn, / No bigger than a minute. Detroit Free Press (MI) 1 May 10/1: A good ‘brace’ dealer commands a large salary in gambling circles. Detroit Free Press in (1909) 147/1: Experience has shown that iron steamships are very dangerous in case of collisions, so the only plan now to increase ocean travel will be to build vessels entirely of india-rubber. A collision between vessels would hardly do more than give the passengers the grand bounce. Detroit Free Press in (1909) 242/2: Pa says I am a terror to cats. Every time pa says anything it gives me a new idea. I tell you pa has got a great brain, but sometimes he don’t have it with him. Detroit Free Press 5 Jan. 5/3: What in flaxaion do you want. Detroit Free Press 2 Aug. 7/6: ‘Who is that man who has just gone out?’ asked a globe trotter of a barkeeper in Deadwood City [...] ‘That,’ replied the gin-jerker, ’that’s a perfect gentleman’. Detroit Free Press Aug. n.p.: [...] He’d wipe up the ground with him; he’d walk all over him [F&H]. Detroit Free Press Oct. n.p.: Professor Rose, who hit this town last spring, is around calling us a fugitive from justice [F&H]. Detroit Free Press 8 Dec. n.p.: One man held up six stage passengers in Arizona the other day and robbed them of $2,000 [...] [F&H]. Detroit Free Press 13 Oct. n.p.: Mounted on a white horse, he started on a land-prospecting tour and ran against a party of hold-ups [F&H]. Detroit Free Press 22 Dec. n.p.: Jerry wants a new pop right bad [F&H]. Detroit Free Press 8 Dec. n.p.: Won’t it be rather hard at first to give up all the pink suppers and kettledrums and afternoon what-do-you-call-’ems?’ [...] [F&H]. in Detroit Free Press n.p.: ‘Then, governor. I see you ten dolIars and raise you the whole State of Vermont.’ The game ceased. Mouth-betting was not a success [B&L]. Detroit Free Press (MI) 27 Oct. 28/1: It was the wish of their pastor [...] that they should not forget the language that was to him the most musical [...] of Taffyland. Detroit Free Press (MI) 1 Apr. 4/4: Finnegan is what the sports term a ‘tough guy’. He rather enjoys acting as the receiver of a few wallops and wades into top-notchers in the same style. Detroit Free Press (MI) 18 Feb. 6/2: Here is a good opportunity for a young man employed who is anxious to make a litle side money. Detroit Free Press 13 May 2/3: Piled up [...] like ciggie butts in Saturday night’s spit box. Detroit Free Press (MI) 18 Sept. 6/1: Take these halters and go down in the back forty and find Belgium and Wild Eyes [i.e. horses] and turn them in the paddock. Detroit Free Press (MI) 19 Mar. 70/6: ‘That tramp has kidnaped Jimmy Clark!’ muttered carl [...] They soon reached the tramp’s shack and rescued him. Detroit Free Press (MI) 22 Apr. 4/7: On the records [...] are the names of ‘Beerhead’ Becker, ‘Leggy’ kennedy, Cincinnati Slim [...] and others who have been in the house of correction. Detroit Free Press (MI) 20 Jan. 4/4: Edward Hume is a tough elevator jockey whose mount is amusingly refractory. Detroit Free Press (MI) 26 Apr. 82/3: I was back in the old ways, hitting the dope harder than ever.