Prohibition's Uneven Impact on Tax, Grape Growers
The piece notes 1922 income tax cuts yet heavy burdens on taxpayers, with calls for budget cuts amid congressional inaction. It also discusses Prohibition’s mixed effects on wine and grape growers, highlighting California’s Sheehan and argues that prohibition has shifted markets without ending alcohol use. Minor regional observations on bootlegging and economic strain follow.
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Laws and obedience in a law loving republic
A Texan preacher argues that laws must reflect rightness, not mere obedience to authority. He warns that with laws made without consent, obedience may become loyalty to flawed rule, risking tyranny and eroding the people's sovereignty in a republic.
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Wy Weston
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People Demand Real Laws Not Mere Obedience
The piece argues that laws should reflect democratic will rather than mere obedience. It laments repeated expectations of compliance with statutes that people oppose. When lawmakers deny popular desires, citizens lose faith in law and view its virtue as eroded by excess.
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Queer Role for Democrats in Ship Subsidy Debate
The piece argues some Democrats on the United States Shipping Board abandon core party principles by backing the ship subsidy bill to align with Republican tariff aims. It claims this shift would erase party differences as the bill links to protectionist tariffs, risking higher costs for American consumers and favoring merchant marine interests over general public benefit.
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United States Shipping Board
Congress
Republican Party
Shipping Board
New Eyeily Morning Recites Odd Dreamlike Verse
A fragmented archaic style passage presents dreamlike imagery and shifting scenes. References to weather, healing, and distant landscapes mix with names and places that blur into poetic fragments. The piece reads as a surreal meditation rather than a single narrative with a clear event or action.
The Pedograph Mystery in a Frontier Mining Town
A narrator details discovering a pedograph that records footsteps, tracing ten mile journeys and revealing hidden motives surrounding Morehead and a missing daughter. The chase leads to a mining town where a wary pursuit amid gamblers and miners escalates, with danger looming as the instrument's secrets draw closer.
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Roy Wiite
Tapley
Hue Tivada
Eyada
Laughing and Listening in a Quirky Family Scene
In a whimsical dialogue a child Gwennie explains how her mother, described as an overbearing “mnefal dear,” wakes her with bobbed hair and a bright morning routine. The father and others react with puzzled humor as siblings debate manners and responsibilities within a lively domestic moment.
Fragmented vaudeville street names and show mentions
A garbled listing of acts and performers appears to reference vaudeville titles and stage names such as Majistic-tigre veuileriiles and Princess-Esew'e, with scattered words like Reck's Gea Sea Nights and Wontan's Fuss. The text is largely unreadable and lacks coherent context or a clear event.
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Esew'e Vanderdiy
Jackie Coven
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