Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1885 — The Era of "Syndicates.” [ARTICLE]

The Era of "Syndicates.”

“Ma, there’s a syndicate of bad boys punching brother Johnnie’s head at tjie comer 1” “The little villains! Mary Catherine, tell the syndicate of policemen at the beer saloon forninst the letther box, an’ I’ll get a syndicate of the neighbors an<A go to his rescue immeejetly. Where’s Johnnie's own syndicate that they ain’t on hand to help him?” “They’re gone with a "base-ball syndicate to the comer-lot, an’ there’s a syndicate of fish-peddlers fighting them there now, an’ their hands is full. You’ll have to get a syndicate of neighbors to help.”— Pittsourg Chronicle.