Potosi

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in Potosi, Missouri is, like, $1,400 for one week, so.

I would like to think maybe let's say it's, like, two weeks.

That seems like it's high, but not so...

Pre-game coverage today at 4, first pitch at 4.30 from Raider Field in Bontair on KFMO.

Volleyball today, 17-0 Potosi plays at Festus, Herculaneum hosts St. Paul, Farmington's back at home against DeSoto, and West County is at Crystal City.

And girls tennis, today is the MAAA Conference Tournament, and Middle Area College soccer, the Cards and Lady Cards, today hosts St. Louis Community College.

In other local news,

Let me give some backstory on the fact.

I've known you for about 47 seconds, and it's 4 a.m., and we're in Potosi, Missouri, and something has stung the absolute shit out of my foot.

It swelled up like a balloon.

Fact.

Gamble made so fair and just a governor in those sad times that he was kept in the chair of chief of the state till 1864.

End of Chapter 17 Read by Linda Johnson March 2024 Chapter 18 of HISTORY OF MISSOURI IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE the capture of the first secession flag when you read the headline to this chapter your pulse will throb quick and fast your eyes will flash and your heart thrill you will think of a field of strife where foes meet as man to man the one who wins gives a cry of joy his foe is down and his own wounds give him great pain but that is as naught to him he is a hero in his hand is the blood-moist flag of the foe to pluck it from one who is a man as strong as his own true brave self is a grand deed i know you must love to hear of such deeds it is too bad i can't tell you a tale of such a fine deed of pluck when the first confederate flag was captured it came to pass in this way word came to general lyon at the arsenal that the secesh were real bad down in potosi and the union men thought it was time to put a stop to their cheers for jeff davis general lyon bade captain coles of company a Fifth Regiment, United States Volunteers, take all the troops he might need down to Potosi and put a check on the rebel fun.

The captain was soon on his way, and in a short time, the whole town was in the hands of the Union force.

Troops were put on guard at all the homes where Secesh dwelt.