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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

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Police are trying to determine who shot a calf, took the meat and left the carcass behind. The Janesville Gazette reported that the calf, weighing about 400 pounds, was shot with a small-caliber bullet and then slaughtered between noon Saturday and when it was found at about 6:30 p.m. Sunday. The calf's mother was found bellowing near its offspring in a pasture.

And, because Google is kind of amazing, there's also this 60-year-old gem, also from the Janesville Gazette:

CALF'S STOMACH YIELDS $850 — Bank officials Hazel Martin and C. G. Webb (left) count $850 found in the stomach of a calf belonging to W. G. Dinsmore (right) shown examining another calf that swallowed the rest of the missing…

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