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americus times-recorder (americus, ga.;[americus, ga.?]) 1891-current — sulphur smell

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1911-05-14
Location: americus, georgia, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: americus times-recorder (americus, ga.;[americus, ga.?]) 1891-current · 1911-05-14 · page 2
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1911-05-14 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “sulphur smell”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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... to rip out your old-fashioned sulphur smelling, hair-raising, blue-and-red streaked specimens of profanity. Dean Swift was rather inclined to ward swearing, and was not at all backward in using profane expressions both in his speech and writings. Dur ing the fever of the South Sea specula tion 1 Swift wrote an article in which he proposed to turn to public acount the many oaths that were uttered. He called his new financial proposition the “Bank of Swearing.” This hank was to have the monopoly of levying all the fines which the laws of the country im posed upon swearers—fines which had been rarely inflicted, although war ranted by the statute book. The Dean maintained that ...

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