Prohibition in Senate and House Races Focus in 1930s Fight
Charles P. Stewart reports that prohibition remains a political issue mainly in senatorial and congressional contests, with the Anti-Saloon League directing efforts to elect lawmakers favorable to modifying the Volstead law. Estimates of wet and dry votes vary. the wets seek enough gains to push change, while the dry side disputes these tallies and plans targeted campaigns in both parties.
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Charles P. Stewart
NEA
Washington
Coolidge-Davis-La Follette
Association Against the
Congress
Anti-Saloon League
Association Against
Wet Association
Senate
House
Seanate
House of Representatives
Three Men Shot as Klansmen Meet in Groveland
In Haverhill on July 31 a clash between 3000 to 5000 Ku Klux Klan members meeting on Perry Hill Groveland and local crowds left four men shot in the legs and 23 detained. Police seized six guns and ammunition as disorder spread along roads near Inverhill. Wounded men James Connell Francis Cotter Edmund Lucey and a fourth Buckley from Haverhill were in a vehicle. Klansmen fired on passing cars.
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Mays
Ku Klux Klan
Groveland
Perry Hill
Worcester
Boston
Springfield
Ward
Inverhil
Fred
Wes
James Connelly
Francis Cotter
Edmund Lucey
Buckley
Taverhill
Clash at Haverhill: Rumors of Klan Meeting Sparks Violence
Report of vehicles driving toward Haverhill and gunfire and stone-throwing as krangmen entered the town. Arrests split roughly between Klansmen supporters and opponents, with tensions flaring during the event.
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Haverhill
Phat War and a Scot’s Evening Meal Prompt
A canny Scot wonders if business will keep him from supper as he tells his wife Jeanie he will call at six. He asks her not to lift the receiver so he can add two pence for the call if needed, in a brief Halifax Daily Courier item.
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Jeanie
Halifax Daily Courier
Dividends Paid by Defunct Commercial National Bank
Wilmington July 30 Depository in the defunct Commercial National Bank of Wilmington yesterday paid a ten percent dividend. Checks ranged from one cent on a ten cent deposit to over $100. The bank, once led by Lieutenant Governor W. B. Cooper and brother Thomas B. Cooper, has been in liquidation for nineteen months. Receiver William said no date for the next dividend is set.
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Wilmington
Commercial National Bank of Wilmington
W. B. Cooper
Thomas 8. Cooper
Absent Minded Professor and anxious wife encounter
A wife probes a club to locate her husband, asking the hall porter if he is there. The porter replies the husband is never present, revealing a comic miscommunication. The exchange mirrors a classic joke where recognition and memory falter.
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Northern Daily Telegraph
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