Typed as spelled and written
Kay Cunningham

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Fifteenth Year - Number 23
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, August 4, 1904

HE WAS DRUNK AND DOWN.
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USUAL TREATMENT PRESCRIBED BY CITY
AUTHORITIES.
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     Considerable attention was drawn to a stranger at the hot well early Friday night, who appeared to be suffering some internal pain that caused him to emit occasional groans and moans as if he was about to "pass in his checks."
     Parties in the crowd sought to alleviate his misery by the application of various remedies but to no a vail as the diagnois seemed to be eroneous.
     Pretty soon Drs. M. M. Coleman and Frank B. Sewall arrived on the scene and held a consultation over the postrate form of the stranger, whose sir-name was Evans. The doctors diagnosed the trouble as an aggravated form of john barley corn's disease.
     Dr. Coleman prescribed a treatment of ten hours in the "city cooler" and it was accordingly so done. The patient had recovered sufficiently to confront the mayor at 9 o'clock next morning and receive a statement of fees due for his treatment.
     Evans was here as a witness in one of the railroad cases pending in the district court.

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