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"text": "Miss Theresa Samuels . . . is accused by the Post Office authorities of sending scurrilous letters to young women whose engagements to marry had been publicly announced. . . . Those who received the poison pen letters were not willing to court the notoriety that would follow the prosecution of the case.",
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"ref": "2001 August 1, Nigel Bunyan, “Twelve-year reign of poison pen villager”, in telegraph.co.uk, retrieved 2010-08-25",
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"word": "nimetön herjauskirje"
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"word": "lettre anonyme"
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