"Black and white and red (read) all over" (1859)

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_Communications.;  A WORD OF CHEER FROM MEADVILLE. _
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Christian Inquirer  (1846-1864). New York: Apr 23, 1859. Vol. 13, Iss. 30; p.
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YOUR weekly visit to our Reading-room is a welcome one, I assure you. You
have a prominent place close by your good brother _Register;_ and though you are
 black and white when you arrive, you are soon, as the riddle goes, red
(read)  all over.

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