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Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson, p.491
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Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson, p.491

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