1900 Williston Graphic (ND) 29 Nov. 1/6: More ‘Guff’ from the Cranks. [...] The Enforcement League has set to work [...] to the suppress the blind piggeries.at blind pig, n.
1905 Williston Graphic (ND) 27 Apr. 3/2: Mrs O’Toole smiled maliciously. ‘My dear [...] it was the condition which this bright specimen of manhood made to repay him [etc].at bright specimen (n.) under bright, adj.3
1914 Williston Graphic (ND) 22 Jan. 2/6: A croaker sat on the grumbler’s bench and croaked that the town was dead [...] the times were dull, the stores were bum, as bum could be. And so he sat [...] and croaked and croaked.at croak, v.1
1918 Williston Graphic (ND) 30 May n.p.: We had cooked his goose, and our ruse had worked.at cook someone’s goose, v.