bottle bill: a statute that would require merchants to reclaim used bottles
written communication: communication by means of written symbols (either printed or handwritten)
nazarene: a member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah; they accepted the Gospel According to Matthew but rejected the Epistles of St. Paul and continued to follow Jewish law and celebrate Jewish holidays; they were later declared heretic by the Church of Rome