The Croaktown Gazette — Back Issues

Every front page the swamp's fish-wrap of record has printed and buried, kept exactly as it ran. A fresh edition drops each week; the old ones settle here in the morgue, still legible, still denied. Start with this week's and read your way down through the silt. Every issue is a work of parody.

1. Edition No. LOn the stands

   Croaktown · Week of the Dry Bank

   Drought Drops The Water Table; A Locker The Trial Thought Lost Surfaces On Its Own, Already Claimed

   This week on the front page: a drought exposes a lost evidence locker on its own, a twentieth shell pondcompany claims the weather as an asset, a storm-drain casino's dry canal turns up the missing Barcarolle gondola, and the swamp's quietest courier delivers three hours early.

   • Courts Desk
   • Business & Filings
   • Nightlife & Numbers
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2. Edition No. XLIXBack issue

   Croaktown · Week of the Rising Damp

   Retrial Convened On A Raft So No Frog Owns The Ground Beneath It; Defendant Buys The Raft By Lunch

   This week on the front page: a retrial floated on a raft the defendant buys by lunch, a nineteenth pondcompany whose only asset is the eighteenth's opinion of itself, a casino selling weather insurance against the climate it is, and the evidence pantry catering the trial.

   • Courts Desk
   • Business & Filings
   • Nightlife & Numbers
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3. Edition No. XLVIIIBack issue

   Croaktown · Week of the Green Fog

   Prosecution Rests; Learns It Has Been Resting In The Wrong Courthouse Since Spring

   A prosecution that rested in the wrong building, an eighteenth pondcompany that owns the other seventeen, a casino whose second drain is ruled to be weather, and a property room quietly reclassified as a pantry.

   • Courts Desk
   • Business & Filings
   • Property Room
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4. Edition No. XLVIIBack issue

   Croaktown · Week of the Low Water

   Trial Adjourns For Seventh Time; Defendant Says He "Had A Thing"

   The seventh adjournment, a seventeenth shell pondcompany reporting record nothing, a casino with no winners, and the property room logging three warm exhibits as shrinkage.

   • Courts Desk
   • Business & Filings
   • Property Room
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5. Edition No. XLVIBack issue

   Croaktown · Week of the High Silt

   Grand Jury Enters Ninth Day; Foreman Reports He "Cannot Locate The Room"

   A grand jury that can't find its own chamber, a registry blessing a merger of two ponds never dug, a casino game no patron may win, and the soft twin who returned a wallet with the flies still in it.

   • Courts Desk
   • Nightlife & Numbers
   • Family Desk
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6. Edition No. XLVBack issue

   Croaktown · Week of the Broken Reeds

   Defense Files Appeal Against A Verdict That Has Not Yet Arrived

   An appeal filed before the verdict, a pondbank that now lends only gratitude, a toll raised on a bridge nobody built, and a mailbag of frogs who witnessed a signature and woke up guarantors.

   • Courts Desk
   • Business & Filings
   • Letters & Grievances
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