Hoard of odd state bills fills winter legislature pages
A parade of freak measures surfaces across states including anti treating rules in Pennsylvania and South Dakota, age 18 cigarette bans in Nebraska, stray animal control in Indiana, crop rotation for soil care in Minnesota, egg date stamps in Iowa, dog control in Maine, football bans in Colorado, and a pet cemetery bill in Massachusetts, with Missouri featuring most antics. A Missouri senator proposes a 10 percent bachelors tax to fund state needs, while other oddly specific ideas spark debate and reflections on legislative humor.
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Chronicle Hotel Contest Poem Awards Ten Dollar Prize
Mrs. Berry of Marlin won ten dollars in the Chronicle Houston Hotel contest with a verse lamenting Bethlehem’s inn plight and urging Houston to build a hospitable hotel to welcome travelers. The piece contrasts hospitality with a queen of Texas plains failing to provide lodgings. The final line notes a drinking man insisting liquor is moonshine.
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If Pa Was King of Spain Poem
A humorous verse about a new baby keeping a father awake at night. The father imagines being king of Spain to escape the crying child and laments that common people must hope in vain, longing for royal ease.
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Health and sanitation urged as rains bring pests and filth
The piece urges vigilance on health as rain returns mosquitoes and weeds spread, cites a College Station cistern with tyripoid germs that led to 500 students being dismissed, and notes sloppy sidewalks causing water pools. It also reports Mr. Miller of Branchville dying at 93, with funeral details, and ends with a Pythian sisterhood verse and a caution about small minds.
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Cameron
Decoration Day honor and Confederate graves care funded
The federal government allocates 290000 dollars to mark and care for Confederate graves initiated by Southern women. Decoration Day observed nationwide as flowers fade, with 30000 Confederate soldiers dying in Northern prisons and hospitals. Endnote urges equal remembrance under the fallen, lyric lines align to a somber call.
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