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Bismarck Daily Tribune choose

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[US] Bismarck Dly Trib. (ND) 22 Feb. 15/3: he had three cows and a team of old crowbait horses.
at crow-bait, n.
[US] Bismarck Dly Trib. (ND) 1 Sept. 3/2: It is said five different holdups have occurred which would seem to be an incentive to laborers to buy a ticket and ride on the cushions instead of in empty box cars and wherever they can stow themselves away on freight trains.
at on the cushions under cushion, n.
[US] Bismarck Dly Trib. (ND) 15 June 5/5: Friends of the woman endeavoured to have her released from the stout house.
at stout house, n.
[US] Bismarck Dly Trib. (ND) 27 Jan. 5/6: The bill even demand that the members of the railroad commission [...] will have to dig up the cash if they wish to ‘ride the cushions’.
at ride the cushions (v.) under ride, v.
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