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Three cases of assault and battery in our city justice courts so far this week are another indication of returned prosperity. Times have been so hard the past few months that when a man got mad at another he would swallow his wrath, go home, and pound his dog. Now that the good times have returned, he gets into a scrap with the cause of his anger and winds up with a round in the justice court.

—Town Newspaper, Wisconsin, October 1897, cited by Michael Lesy, Wisconsin Death Trip.