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A Black woman files a high-stakes civil suit against a prominent town citizen for an alleged assault occurring eighteen months prior.
“Mr. McInnis stated that there is nothing to hush. He said that he spurned all such offers and told the messengers to 'go to hell.'”
A minister's wife recants sensational allegations of abuse and battery, leaving a community wondering what truth lies behind a public marriage scandal.
“Affiant now states that these allegations are false and untrue and that at the time affiant signed said complaint in said action she did not know what was contained in said complaint.”
A local judge in Davenport declares the state's 'board-jumping' law unconstitutional, sparking a debate over the rights of the hungry versus the interests of hotels.
“Board jumpers can eat and grow fat in the precinct presided over by Judge Oswalt, who is manifestly a friend to the hungry.”
A long-distance correspondence turns into a lightning-fast wedding after a lamp nearly explodes.
“From the time the parties met until they were married an hour did not elapse.”
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