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Cayton’s Weekly choose

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[US] Cayton’s Wkly (Seattle, WA) 27 Apr. 1/3: From an organized labour standpoint everybody and his brother are crazy.
at everybody and his cousin, n.
[US] Cayton’s Wkly (Seattle, WA) 20 Dec. 4/2: I am rustling for hog and hominy for seven dependents.
at hog and hominy (n.) under hog, n.
[US] Cayton’s Wkly (Seattle, WA) 21 June 2/1: Fees have advanced a dollar each, which [...] means Grant is in the fight [...] with blood in his eyes and ‘iron boys’ in his hand.
at iron boy (n.) under iron, n.
[US] Cayton’s Wkly (Seattle, WA) 8 Feb. 1/3: Jumping Moses, but it was fine.
at jumping Moses!, excl.
[US] Cayton’s Wkly (Seattle, WA) 27 Sept. 2/2: If the nigger-lovers want to make an official investigation of the affair, let them.
at nigger-lover, n.
[US] Cayton’s Wkly (Seattle, WA) 15 Mar. 2/1: There’ll be few gents in prison when Barleycorn’s got his’n, and locks the Rum Hole door.
at rum-hole (n.) under rum, n.2
[US] Cayton’s Wkly (Seattle, WA) 18 Dec. 4/2: The only plan [...] was for Mr Aldrich to go to the theater with his pepper-and-salt trousers combined with the upper half of an evening suit.
at pepper and salt, n.1
[US] Cayton’s Wkly (Seattle, WA) 24 Jan. n.p.: If officials generally would act quickly in such cases a lot of wrangling and rag chewing would be obviated.
at chew the rag, v.
[US] Cayton’s Wkly (Seattle, WA) 10 Jan. 3/2: When the wear was done and ended [...] We should have straight way wended to the tasks we used to do; shaking off the katzenjammer that the long drawn conflict made.
at katzenjammer, n.
[US] Cayton’s Wkly (Seattle, WA) 10 Jan. 3/2: It was ours to blithely mizzle to the anvil and the loom.
at mizzle, v.
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