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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 13, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 49.

Sunday Closing Law Opposed by Jews

Jewish residents of the ghetto in St. Louis, Missouri, are strongly opposing the law under which the police are forcing grocers and meat dealers to close their places of business on Sunday. The religious convictions of the Jews in observing the "Sabbath according to the commandment" prevent their opening their places of business on the seventh day of the week; and when they are required by civil law to remain closed on Sunday, they claim that a food shortage results in that section. Most of the ghetto residents, it is declared, are too poor to buy enough Friday to last until Monday, and many of them lack facilities for keeping it, even if they are able to get it.