Blue law
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Blue laws are laws restricting or banning certain activities on specified days, usually Sundays in the western world. The laws were adopted originally for religious reasons, specifically to promote th
Sabbath Eve, painting by Alexander Johnston
Sunday laws in Ontario, 1911
Raines law
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The New York State liquor tax law of 1896, also known as the Raines law, was authored by the New York State Senator John Raines and adopted in the New York State Legislature on March 23, 1896. Among o
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He never could stand prosperity, an illustration by Louis Dalrymple satirizing the Raines law, 1897
Free lunch, by Charles Dana Gibson.