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January 1948

Barley Corn

(Ol' John's Stuff)

Jack London's autobiographical novel, John Barleycorn, concludes with the following paragraph: "They (the younger generation) will know of the saloon only in the pages of history, and they will think of the saloon as a quaint old custom similar to bull-baiting and the burning of witches." (Publication date: August, 1913)

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