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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1920
Page
3
Mrs Elizabeth Shapiro of 149 Cambridge Street West End escaped serious injury when a platform of a fire escape broke and she grabbed an iron bar. Her left arm muscles were punctured causing severe shock and blood loss before she was taken to Relief Hospital for treatment.
William E. Pussyfoot Johnson of Westerville Ohio returned to New York from Liverpool aboard the steamship New York after attempting to push England toward prohibition. He was greeted by prohibition advocates as he arrived and described his eye injury during the crusade.
Johnson, blind since losing an eye, toured southern France Paris and Copenhagen promoting prohibition. On the return steamer he urged cabin and steerage passengers to support dry laws, predicting Britain will adopt prohibition within ten years and that other nations will follow. He plans private business in London and a return by September, with unspecified US plans.
He claims a strong prohibition bloc in France and a pending liquor disposal issue. He says in India liquor traffic will shift to government control next year and most of the country will be dry within two years. He recalls being sandpapered abroad but praises the English.
Washington April 22 The bill by Representative Griffin Democrat New York would raise surtaxes on individual and corporate incomes to prevent either from exceeding 500000 annually beyond present exemptions.
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