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1 story matching emerg
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:emer, emeri, emert, emerald, emerick, emerson
- Two Shots, a Cold River, and a Flask of Rat Poison
Frederick Angle fired twice at his wife, jumped in the river, and then drank Rough on Rats with a friend who did not survive it. The stomach pump arrived, in the paper's words, 'unfortunately' too soon.