Somebody’s child living out here on somebody’s farm had a finger cut off the other day, but we are unable to learn names and their particulars. Hope it is done aching by this time. If anybody else will cut off a finger we will lend them a good sharp knife, will pay for having it (the finger) sewed on, and will give a good square notice of the affair in the Schooner. Locals [local news items] are scarce and getting scarcer.

Culled from the Prairie Schooner, Marshall, Minnesota, September 13, 1873.