1896 Chicago Eagle 19 Sept. 4/4: The Cook County Democratic convention did not make an abject surrender to the Populists and labor skates.at labor skate, n.
1899 Chicago Eagle (IL) 4 Mar. 2/1: We will pass out the usual amount to the $100 men, as we call the cheapskate aldermen.at cheapskate, adj.
1901 Chicago Eagle 14 Sept. 7/2: He was approached by a knight of the road, who said he had pattered oveer the pike from Providence.at knight of the road, n.
1902 Chicago Eagle 17 May 2/6: A statement [...] quoting Alderman Minwegen as calling foreign born policemen ‘bog hoppers and peat trimmers.’.at boghopper (n.) under bog, n.3
1904 Chicago Eagle 3 Dec. 1/5: The Labor Skates have rung themselves in on the new charter committee.at labor skate, n.
1905 Chicago Eagle 20 May 1/6: Liverlips Herman [...] introduced an order for an investigation.at liver-lips, n.
1907 Chicago Eagle 21 Dec. 1/3: The canner cow is a scandal [...] Canners are sold in drove to Packers who make ‘Delicacies’ out of them [...] A canner cow is a poor, worn-out diseased or emaciated animal.at canner, n.
1908 Chicago Eagle (IL) 15 Feb. 11/2: ‘Will yer swear?’ ‘Yus!’ ‘Take yer oath?’ ‘Yus!’ ‘Bible oath?’ ‘Yus!’.at bible, n.
1910 Chicago Eagle 5 Feb. 8/6: The ‘discovery’ of Mrs Gunness [...] proved to be a hoax by a ‘tin star detective’.at tin star (n.) under tin, adj.
1911 Chicago Eagle (IL) 25 Feb. 1/6: It makes things easy for the grafting deadbeat and nobody else. A dead-beat grafter can run for high-salried jobs.at deadbeat, n.
1912 Chicago Eagle 11 May 4/2: The board [...] was made up of anarchistic agitators or liver-lipped legal dynamiters.at liver-lipped (adj.) under liver-lips, n.