Prohibition beer bill passes house in tight vote
The CHAIRMAN COLLIER beer bill cleared the house 280 to 165 after amendments were defeated. It sets 8.2 percent alcohol by weight and 4% by volume, bars shipments to dry states, imposes a $5 per 81 gallon tax, a $1000 brewer permit, and re-enacts $50 wholesalers and $26 retailers taxes. The measure faces senate opposition, but leaders expect action within about 80 days.
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Jack Frost Visits the Green Forest in a Quiet Night
In a Northland tale by Thornton W. Burgess, Jack Frost quietly paints and chills the trees and meadows as dawn nears. Creatures like Peter Rabbit and Johnny Chuck sense the change, with Johnny chuck deciding to sleep through winter as frost arrives and sunbeams creep in.
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Sammy Jay
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Reddy
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Mr. Sun
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Peter
T. W. Burgess
Inca Tombs Unearth Vast Gold Cache in Ecuador
Excavations at Alamos ranch in Ecuador uncover 140 gold nuggets as large as lemons along with gold armor necklets and other valuables found within Inca tombs. The discovery highlights substantial royal-era treasure and artifacts unearthed during the dig.
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Ecuador
Alamos Ranch
Sardine Delicacies from Rarebit to Toast
An old fashioned guide to preparing sardines includes hot rarebit with melted cheese and eggs, curried sardines with cream and lemon, and sardine toast with apple sauce. It also suggests sardine sandwiches and a Sunday supper option, all from Western Newspaper Union.
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Western Newspaper Union
Papas and Masa Start of Masa Production in 1932
In 1932 Bell Syndicate WNU Service notes the first masa production event as a cultural milestone. The fragment references a dialogue about pyramids and masa, indicating early steps in mass food processing. The item reads like a brief historical column note with limited context and names.
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Bell Syndicate
WNU
Taft Snowden Wins Intercollegiate Heavyweight Title
Henry Taft Snowden, nephew of the late President and chief justice William Howard Taft, a Yale wrestling mainstay and veteran member, won the 1931 intercollegiate heavyweight title. He is 6 feet 6 inches tall in stocking feet and weighs 221 pounds.
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William Howard Taft
Supreme Court
Yale
Snowden
Boners and Parodies from Exam Humor Notes
A collection of joking lines on education and history including misattributed quotes about the deluge, mock orthography, and playful misstatements about civilizations, religion, and the Papacy. The items resemble brief syndicated humor snippets and classroom bon mots from the Bell Syndicate WNN service.
Glasses We Wear On The World In 1932
A reflective verse discusses lenses of perception. It contrasts hateful views with clear sight, noting some are blind to the present while the best glasses reveal beauty, past, and futures, guiding gentler judgments and a better world, aligned with divine will.
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Paris
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France
United States
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Herriot
America
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M. Cot
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Veterans’ Administration
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Joint Committee of Congress
Bullitt
Economy League
Mr. Bullitt
Veterans Administration
Ife
Miss Mackay Wins Second Consecutive Prize for Sculpture
Helen V. Mackay, a young London sculptor, has for the second year in succession been awarded the 500 prize for the best sculpture submitted by a woman. Her winning piece is a study of the recumbent figure of Christ supported by the Virgin Mary.
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Miss Mackay
Christ
Mary
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