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Jamestown (Weekly) Alert choose

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[US] Jamestown Alert (ND) 1 Aug. 2/3: If I hadn’t been put upon my Bible oath what was to prevent me telling a lie?
at bible, n.
[US] Jamestown Alert (ND) 14 Sept. 1/3: These very identical kickers are upholding and patronizing a boozery of their own.
at boozery, n.
[US] Jamestown Alert (ND) 14 Sept. 1/3: These very identical kickers are upholding and patronizing a boozery of their own.
at kicker, n.2
[US] Jamestown Wkly Alert (ND) 4 Mar. 6/2: ‘None of your lip, you impudent, bogtrotting Paddy!’ roarded the enraged officer.
at bogtrotting (adj.) under bog, n.3
[US] Jamestown Wkly Alert (ND) 12 Nov. 7/2: [headline] In the Sweatbox. A Leading Memphis Attorney Put There by a Judge — Great Indignation.
at sweat-box, n.
[US] Jamestown Wkly Alert (ND) 13 Apr. 4/3: Attorney general Standish has delegated State Senator John Burke to prosecute the blind piggeries [...] The W.C.T.U. ladies recently visted the ‘joints,’ yclept pigs, for evidence of illgal liquor traffic.
at blind pig, n.
[US] Jamestown Wkly Alert (ND) 1 May 2/6: ‘It felt sort of squooshy’ [...] The inspector inspected and dis overed that the stone was hollow and [...] in it was booze.
at squooshy, adj.
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