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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1919
Page
6
A long humorous column recounts scattered vignettes from a Philadelphia dinner party with a first drink scene, a baby calmly rocked on a stranger’s lap, and a surgeon offering medical help. It includes misheard courtroom banter, quips about horseshoes, and jokes about soldiers, detectives, and a dentist.
Nebraska becomes the thirty sixth state to ratify the national Prohibitory Amendment. Gov McKelvie signs the instrument as lawmakers note budget changes for 1919 20 and several a bills for a new capitol the English only instruction bill and farm produce licensing reforms are introduced.
Barton Green of Lancaster introduces a measure to regulate boxing and sparring exhibitions in the state and establish a state athletic commission. The governor would lead the panel with the attorney general and secretary of state as members, directing all matches held by clubs, corporations or associations. The bill prompts opposition by claiming it legalizes pugilism.
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