Friday, October 28, 2011

Some wicked wag has . . .

. . . perpetrated the “saying” that one of our Iowa regiments has a rule that every man who utters an oath, shall read a chapter in the bible, and that several have got nearly through the Old Testament. -  Keokuk Constitution.

If Claggett, editor of the above paper were a member of that regiment, he would be reader to the entire body.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, April 2, 1862, p. 2

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