PEASANTS AND “THE PUB.”
IGNORANCE IN RUSSIA
[By Electric telegraph—Copyright] [United Press .Association.] St. Petersburg, August 25.
'i he peasants of the village of Walli/o met to'discuss the cause of heavy rain spoiling the harvest, and decided that it was attributable to the intemperance of an innkeeper. A deputation interview the 1 innkeeper and he refused to mend his ways. As the raiu had not ceased, the peasants held a court in a field and condemned the innkeeper to be beaten to death.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 96, 27 August 1913, Page 4
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83PEASANTS AND “THE PUB.” Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 96, 27 August 1913, Page 4
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