West Virginia Admitted

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    “It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.”
    —For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.”
    —Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)