Meanwhile, in nineteenth-century Kansas...

When a man "made some remarks derogatory to the character of Mrs Antonia Fell" she went after him with a pair of cowhide whips and administered a & #39;severe castigation& #39;!
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— Illustrated Police News (US ed., 1877)
He fled into a drugstore; she whipped him in there too.

When bystanders interfered, she threatened to whip & #39;em.

If he took her to court? She promised to "give him another dose" of the whip so "that the court may see for itself how it was done, and save explanation."
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This Wisconsin girl didn& #39;t take kindly to & #39;insulting proposals& #39; either!
— IPN 1876
I just love the phrase & #39;panned out& #39; here!
— IPN 1876
A & #39;graceless scamp& #39; was harassing a group of ice skating women in Wisconsin until this & #39;Amazon on Skates& #39; spectacularly intervened.

According to reports, & #39;the avenger glided [across] from the opposite bank& #39; and absolutely took him to pieces!

— IPN (1877)
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