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Circuit Judge John Parnham refused to bar as evidence some of the propaganda Griffin had seen -- including graphic videos of aborted fetuses and a hand-bill calling for Dr. Gunn to be stopped.
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Seventh Ward, and read a volume of ‘Galatea,’ which I found on a shelf; but before I had got through a hundred pages, I had three or four good Feds sprawling round me on the floor, and another with his eyes half shut, leaning on my shoulder in the most affectionate manner, and spelling a page of the book as if it had been an electioneering hand-bill.
Washington Irving 2004
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The name signed to this hand-bill was that of the planter I was about to visit.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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We learned from a number of sources that to this circular or hand-bill was attached a reward of $3,000 for my head.
A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland
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I cannot help referring to Colonel Brown's hand-bill of the winter of
Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold Archibald Murray Howe
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That feeling was hot against him even in London is manifest from the fact that the day after his arrival a hand-bill was distributed beginning with the words: 'Dr. Priestley is a damned rascal, an enemy both to the religious and political constitution of this country, a fellow of
The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent
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Hopeful laid aside his hammer and his work, and picked up the hand-bill; and while he is reading it, let us briefly describe him.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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A.ter the election, at which General A.ams had been elected, the hand-bill was reproduced in the "Sangamo Journal," with a card signed by the editor, in which he said: "To save any further remarks on this subject, I now state that A. Lincoln, Esq., is the author of the hand-bill in question."
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By the time he had spelled out the hand-bill, and found that
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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A few days before the August election of 1837 an anonymous hand-bill was scattered about the streets.
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