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The "Galoot" is Here
"The following pedigree of a man who is a partner in a 'write up' of Sidney may interest those of our citizens who deem it proper to pay outsiders big prices to do what they could get at reasonable rates at home." "The following articles, clippings, &c., appeared in the Sidney Independent, under date of November 21, 1891:" "PASS HIM ON.-- The papers in Washington and elsewhere will do well to always keep a cold shoulder ready to turn on a long, lank, dark haired man by the name of Taylor, who follows the avocation of writing up towns and their industries and having the same published in local papers. He is a fluent writer and a smooth talker, and were it not for his proclivity for drunkenness, lying and jumping hotel bills, he would be a useful man in the literary world. The Herald and Sumner had a severe dose of Taylor last week, and we deem it but fraternal to warn others to have nothing to do with him.--Sumner Herald." "The same galoot took nearly two hundred dollars out of Slaughter last spring. The fellow was finally
