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A suggestion by young men…

January 14, 2012 by TimHughes 
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The following items from the March 21, 1874 issue of “Harper’s Weekly” is self-explanatory:

• A reason to drink?
• Harper’s Weekly: a magazine or a newspaper?
• From the publisher of the Harper’s reprints…
• The prisoner left with them…
• The Civil War… 150 years ago today… April 6, 1861

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