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THE announcement that, “after opening the Free Library on Sundays for two months, the Town Council have resolved to close it again in consequence of the small number of visitors,” seems to indicate that the Town Council of Chester were as wise in deciding to close the Library as they had previously been in giving the people of Chester an opportunity of spending a portion of their day of rest in the Public Library, where those who do not possess libraries of their own can obtain access to the wisdom of the ages as stored in books.
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JUDGE, M. The Sunday Question. Nature 31, 54–55 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031054f0
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