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December 20, 2025

Flashbacks: Offal times at Healdsburg slaughter house

Staff of Jay Hassert's fruit and vegetable market, house, 1930s.
The first robbery occurred in April, just after a big slaughtering had been completed. The hearts, lights, lungs, and other meat taken from carcasses, considered in butcher parlance as “offal” together with one or two tools, disappeared. A few weeks later, immediately after another butchering, the same thing was repeated.
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