Illicit Stills Turn Russia Back To Vodka
The Soviet militia chief Pyotr Sergeyev describes vodka control as Moscow expands social order aims. He notes about 82,900 militiamen cover Russia proper and estimates over one million illicit samogon stills operate nationwide, with one in twenty peasant farms active in moonshining.
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Russia
FA. R. Kerbocker
America
Pyotr Constantinovitch Sergeyev
Nachalnik
Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic
Sergeyev
Viking customs still observed at Christmas in Sweden
Swedish Christmas traditions trace back to pre Christian times with wolves of ritual and sun worship. The piece contrasts early winter celebrations with modern vodka prohibition in Russia and the United States, notes many still making samogan, and describes Lucia Day customs and candle lit church scenes.
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Stockholm
T. N.S
Sweden
Russia
United States
America
Prohibition
Valhalla
Palestine
Wrigley Leads Vast Catalina Island Silver Mine Venture
William Wrigley Jr launches a large scale mining operation on Catalina Island with a flotation mill valued at over 1.5 million dollars annually in silver lead and zinc concentrates. Mount Black Jack mine shows shafts down to 450 feet with ore assays up to 200 ounces of silver per ton and 82 percent lead in other ore.
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Copeland C. Burg
N.S
Catalina Island
Calif
William Wrigley, Jr
Chicago
Los Angeles
America
Broad Pacific
Mount Black Jack
Ithough Catalina Island
Pacific
Silent Era of Road Building Across Mountain Terrain
Lines carrying 11 000 volts stretched over twenty miles of mountains as roads were built the same distance. Vast rock blasts created underbrush where wild game like gats and horses and buffalo once roamed until industry advanced.
Cuban Amateur Golf Championship Held at Centry Club
The fourteenth annual tournament for the Cuban amateur golf championship will be staged at the Centry Club of Havana during the week of February 23.
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Centry Club
Havana
Dairy exports in Maine reach 18 million yearly
A Maine dairy sector reports about 18 million dollars in annual exports. Meanwhile a Montana farming corporation manages nearly 75 thousand acres using only power machinery for cultivation.
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Maine
Montana
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