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Domestic Manners of the Americans
Chapter VIII: Absence of public and private Amusement—Churches and Chapels—Influence of the Clergy—A Revival
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I never saw any people who appeared to live so much without amusement as the Cincinnatians. Billiards are forbidden by law, so are cards. To sell a pack of cards in Ohio subjects the seller to a penalty of fifty dollars. They have no public...