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March 19, 2011 by TimHughes · Leave a Comment
Sometimes we read things which drive home the futility of human wisdom. Solomon would certainly have cringed at the following verdict which appeared in the “Democratic Watchman” newspaper from Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, dated February 23, 1877:
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