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The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, January 17, 1886
pg. 1

LOCAL CONDENSATIONS
Monday - Crazy Frank, the negro whose feet were badly frozen, will be conveyed to the county poor farm.

Tuesday - George Drinkard and Crazy Frank were sent to the poor farm. The case of George Drinkard is one of the most horrible that has ever came under our personal observation. It has this moral, beware of the harolot, her touch is worse than the leper's.

Thursday - It was reported that George Drinkard had died at the poor farm.

The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, February 10, 1886
pg. 1

LOCAL CONDENSATIONS

Tuesday - Mr. George Drinkard, one of the old sports of Denison, has applied for admission to the poor farm. Drinkard has been a resident of Denison for the past three years; was bar keeper at the Grand Southern and several other saloons, made money and prospered, but whiskey and fast women "downed him."