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Peanuts
Volume 1, entries 2574. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → BUSINESS AND CUSTOMERS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 2574
When I was in Washington [D. C.] about 1900, I played at a fast-house, I played a pyana [pie-ana] in de redlight district. Every morning the girls Would go to work and dump their ur-een together, you see, in one pot, and go to work and take it and wash de front [entrance] off real good every morning. And I use to ask them what dey do it fer and dey said dat was to draw trade. Well, I think it did, becus dag-gone-it dey crowded in there - senators.
(Was it a white fast-house?)
Yes sir. And in dem fast-houses dey wouldn't let you bring no peanuts in there. Not a peanut. No sir!