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What They Say in New England; A Book of Signs, Sayings, and Superstitions, 1896
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Boston Post, Massachusetts, April 30, 1904
They must in reality be food.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, April 11, 1910
These Sunday blue laws seem doubly frustrating because more often than not, until the 8 hour workday laws really began to come into effect 1920s, most people worked 6 days a week, Monday through Saturday, usually 10-16 hours a day. This made it almost impossible to find time to shop during the week, leaving Sunday the only day for errands: but on Sunday everything was closed.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, May 10, 1896
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, December 26, 1908
The Pittsburgh Press, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1922
Deadwood Pioneer-Times, South Dakota, October 7, 1932
…what appeared by the light of the moon to be a nudist colony.
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The Daily Colonist, Victoria BC, February 15, 1917
Alderman Johns himself; on his way home from Church one Sunday morning, bought a can of peas at a Douglas Street store.
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The Huntington Press, Indiana, August 20, 1924
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Portland, Oregon, January 9, 1916
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Pennsylvania, December 9, 1921
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The traveler from the West who lands in town tonight too late or too tired to get a shave, will have to go unscraped tomorrow.