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Food Law of the State of New
The general Adulteration of Food Law of the State of New Jersey is the same as that of New York.
— from Food Adulteration and Its Detection With photomicrographic plates and a bibliographical appendix by Jesse P. (Jesse Park) Battershall

for lunch on the sixth of November
We arrived back at the town of Chelan in time for lunch on the sixth of November, and a couple of hours later were down at the Columbia ready to push off again.
— from Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

for light on the subject of nervous
There has come, too, a demand for a book which shall give accurate and up-to-date information to those physicians who are eager for light on the subject of nervous disorders, and especially for knowledge of the significant contributions of Sigmund Freud, but who are too busy to devote time to highly technical volumes outside their own specialties.
— from Outwitting Our Nerves: A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. (Josephine Agnes) Jackson

future legislature of the state of New
Gouverneur Morris at the state constitutional convention of 1776-1777 recommended that "the future legislature of the state of New York take the most effectual measures consistent with the public safety and the private property of individuals for abolishing domestic slavery within the same, so that in future ages every human being who breathes the air of this state shall enjoy the privileges of a freeman."
— from Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York by Mary White Ovington

From Laws of the State of New
From Laws of the State of New-York relative to the Canals , vol.
— from The Great American Canals (Volume 2, The Erie Canal) by Archer Butler Hulbert


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