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Re: 150 Years Ago Today...August 21, 1860

{Wife Murder. Freeman Davis beat his wife’s brains out with a hoe on Friday last, in Sheffied. He was intoxicated at the time. He was arrested.}

What a dull and insensitive remark! What were the qualifications to be a news reporter for this rag? If he was an articulate muleskinner or longshoreman, he probably would have said that her head exploded like a....

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