GOP; Windy City; Bucket Shop; Stand Pat; Foot and Mouth; Weinerwurst; Hoochenoo

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G.O.P., G.O.M. & G.O.W. (continued)

     From the NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, 8 August 1885, pg. 2, col. 2:

     MR. GLADSTONE is down with a throat disease.  The g.o.m. cannot last
much longer unless he gives the g.o.p. the slip, takes the advice of the
g.o.w., his wife, and throws his night-key away.

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WINDY CITY (continued)

     This is totally useless!  No one in Chicago will listen to anything I
say!
     From the NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, 10 October 1885, pg. 2, col. 3:

     THE Chicago _News_ has a four-column paragraph on the wickedness of that
city, the sum and substance of which is that it is a more sinful city than
Babylon.  When a Windy City scribe starts out to knock out the Biblical
writers, he stops at nothing.

     From the NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, 17 October 1885, pg. 2, col. 3:

     THE League championship colors fly never so proudly as in CHicago.  It
is natural for the Windy City to be "the tenant of the pennant," as a Chicago
Vassar girl would express it.  Why a Chicago girl should use sesquipedalian
words her detractors must explain.

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BUCKET SHOP (continued)

     From the DETROIT EVENING JOURNAL, 5 May 1885, pg. 3, col. 3:

ORIGIN OF "BUCKET SHOPS"
The Three-Cornered Fight to be Soon Adjusted.
(...)
     "By the way, how did bucket shops originate?"
     "A man in Chicago who had dealt considerably on the board went to a
broker one day and wanted to be allowed to take a deal of 1,000 bushels of
wheat.  The broker couldn't possibly do it, and the man asked him to go into
a 5,000 bushel deal, letting him take 1,000 bushels of it.  Th commission man
finally turned to his would-be customer and said: 'If you want to deal by the
bucketful go down into one of those open shops.'  But the name has lost its
significance because the board of trade in Chicago allows trades of 1,000
bushels of wheat or 50 barrels of pork.  It used to be nothing less than
5,000 bushels of wheat or 250 barrels of pork.  None of the bucket shops,
except some of the little ones, will permit transactions any smaller than
those of the board." (...)

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STAND PAT (continued)

     From the CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 7 July 1885, pg. 4, col. 6:

     "STAND pat and bet high" is Gambler Truman's rule when he has a poor
poker hand.  Carter Harrison's appointments show that he can stand Pat to
quite an unlimited extent.

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FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE (continued)

     From the NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, 18 April 1885, pg. 2, col. 3:

     THE "foot and mouth" disease is epidemic in Washington.  After
considerable breaking out in the mouth, chinning for an appointment, the
victim has to foot it back home for lack of car fare.

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WEINERWURST (continued)

     From the NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, 20 March 1886, pg. 2, col. 2:

     WEINERWURST sausage is being imported from London.  The hydrophobic
scare has caused the slaughter of 10,000 dogs in the metropolis.

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HOOCHENOO

     See DARE, which has an 1877 citation with a different spelling.
     From the NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, 6 March 1886, pg. 2, col. 2:

     GOV. SWINEFORD, of Alaska, takes a hand in editing a newspaper of Sitka.
 The copy at hand declares "The Hoochenoo must go."  At this distance it is
difficult to make out what "the Hoochenoo" is, but presumably it is a
slaughter-house democrat or a crooked city marshal.

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STEALING COPPERS OFF A DEAD NIGGER'S EYES

     From the NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, 3 April 1886, pg. 2, col. 2:

     TALK about "stealing coppers off a dead nigger's eyes!"  A Cleveland
(O.) undertaker has been convicted of stealing one of the eyes of a corpse.
An Ohio man would steal an open grave.

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SLUMMING (continued)

     From the NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, 8 March 1884, "SEEING THE SLUMS,"
illustration caption:

THE NEWEST WRINKLE OF METROPOLITAN SOCIETY--HOW FASHION FINISHES THE NIGHT
AFTER THE OPERA AND THE BALL AND ENJOYS A NOVEL SENSATION AT THE EXPENSE OF
MISERY AND VICE.

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DRAMA

     From the NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, 9 May 1885, pg. 3, col. 3:

     In Boston it is called the "drawmah;" in New York, "drahma;" in
Philadelphia, "drama;" in Chicago, "drammer," but in St. Louis they talk
about the "draymy."

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DIVA

     From the NEW YORK DISPATCH, 26 April 1885, pg. 4, col. 5:

     THE reason they call the great singers "divas" is because they know how
to dive into the pockets of the public and get along swimmingly on the high
C's.

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MONEY TALKS (continued)

     From the NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, 8 December 1883, pg. 3, col. 1:

     JAKE MILLER isn't booming quite so much as he was.  Frank Evans has had
to drop his "SIlent Man" out of his repertoire.  "Money talks," says Evans,
"and Miller's piece doesn't.  That's why.  Sabe?"

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O. K. (continued)

     From the NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, 22 February 1883, pg. 2, col. 4:

     "MOTHER," said a slangy Cass avenue boy at the table, when company was
present, "this butter is O. K., but the bread is N. G., and ought to get the
G. B."  "Just hear him!" exclaimed the fond mother; "he is such a beautiful
Latin scholar that I don't pretend to understand a word he says!"

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"NO CHECKEE, NO SHIRTEE!" (continued)

    "No Checkee, No Shirtee!" is the headline for a story in the
CONFECTIONERS' AND BAKERS' GAZETTE, 10 October 1897, pg. 25, col. 2.

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RUSH THE GROWLER (continued)

     From the NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, 19 January 1884, pg. 3, col. 4:

     The choicest beer of the celebrated Bechtel brand (brewage of 1883), ran
like water, and every time the grand old beaker of Lemege faience ($1.99 at
Ridleys), gave out, the venerable "growler" (as it was playfully entitled by
some of the more volatile young Israelites present) was immediately borne to
the nearest saloon, where, with a princely disregard of cost, it was quickly
replenished with another quart of the amber fluid.

    "WORKING THE GROWLER" is the illustration caption and title of a story in
the NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE, 26 April 1884, pg. 12, cols. 1-4.