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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1882
Page
2
A devout pilgrim visiting the Sea of Galilee seeks a holy site with Bible in hand. A local boatman feigns generosity, charging $20 to return after a free outbound ride. The humor ends with the traveler realizing the profit motive behind the miracle inquiry.
A long anecdote recalls Ezra the island farmer who built a movable bog island straddling the New Hampshire Massachusetts line to evade taxes. Each state sent assessors by skiffs as the island drifted, and courts later had to untangle the tax arrangement while Ezra kept his four acres untaxed.
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