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The old-fashioned stock-chair is revived in Cincinnati, as a threatened punishment for 'unpatriotic utterances or conduct unbecoming an American citizen toward the draft', circa 1915. (Photo by Paul Thompson/FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The old-fashioned stock-chair is revived in Cincinnati, as a threatened punishment for 'unpatriotic utterances or conduct unbecoming an American citizen toward the draft', circa 1915. (Photo by Paul Thompson/FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)