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<p>The goal of the proposed ordinance is to create safe venues for 
customers and to discourage illegal activities. The governing officials 
of the City of Oxford will consider the following ordinance at the 
upcoming meeting(s) of the Board of Aldermen. </p>
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<p>The
 bodies were lying in the streets un-buried. All railroads and vessels 
carrying food and such things into the great city had ceased runnings 
and mobs of the hungry poor were pillaging the stores and warehouses. 
Murder and robbery and drunkenness were everywhere. Already the people 
had fled from the city by millions—at first the rich, in their private 
motor-cars and dirigibles, and then the great mass of the population, on
 foot, carrying the plague with them, themselves starving and pillaging 
the farmers and all the towns and villages on the way.</p>
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<p>“The man 
who sent this news, the wireless operator, was alone with his instrument
 on the top of a lofty building. The people remaining in the city—he 
estimated them at several hundred thousand—had gone mad from fear and 
drink, and on all sides of him great fires were raging. He was a hero, 
that man who staid by his post—an obscure newspaperman, most likely.</p>
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<p>“For twenty-four hours, he said, no transatlantic airships had arrived, and no more messages were coming from England. He did state, though, that a message from Berlin—that’s in Germany—announced that Hoffmeyer, a bacteriologist of the Metchnikoff School, had discovered the serum for the plague. That was the last word, to this day, that we of America ever received from Europe. If Hoffmeyer discovered the serum, it was too late, or otherwise, long ere this, explorers from Europe would have come looking for us. We can only conclude that what happened in America happened in Europe, and that, at the best, some several score may have survived the Scarlet Death on that whole continent.</p>
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