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Word: cherryfield (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week citizens of small Cherryfield, Me. & vicinity were being treated to a sight on a par with that of a king rummaging in a slop barrel. Some of last year's drought-starved Western cattle were shipped to Cherryfield. They failed to recuperate, left natives with a large number of ribby carcasses on their hands. Cherryfielders piled the hulks on wagons, carted them to a lonely spot well back from their Black Woods road, dumped them out to rot. Snow soon covered the charnel heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Kings in Carrion | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

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