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Harold McGugin in the meantime was too smart to remain unknown. In 1926 he was elected to the Kansas Legislature. He promptly proposed a law forbidding Kansans to eat mince pie. It was foolish but it made Kansans see the folly of their law against cigarets. Legislator McGugin made his political name by getting Kansas' anti-cigaret law repealed...
...gets back from capturing Sinn Fein Leader Pedar Conlan. Dejected, he stumps out of his house and into a Sinn Fein ambush which enables Tennant to make a handsome gesture. He forges an order for the release of Conlan, obtains the release of Captain Kerr in exchange, lights a cigaret as he gets into a lorry to go to jail for three years...
...prodding him with questions, hoping for newsmaking answers. Correspondent Blair Moody of the Detroit News asked whether the President had any comment to make about accusations against the Collector of Internal Revenue for Michigan. The President looked blank, asked for details. After hearing them he frowned, ground out his cigaret. said that if such things were true they would have to end immediately. Next day agents of the Treasury Department turned up in Detroit. Three days later Secretary Morgenthau emerged from the White House to announce that Collector of Internal Revenue Horatio Johnson Abbott of Detroit was out of Government...
Chicago's 1871 fire, started by a cow, burned up $200,000,000 worth of property and many a cigaret smoker. Last week another great Chicago fire, started by a cigaret smoker, burned up $8,000,000 worth of property and many...
Shortly after 4 p. m., the great hay barn of the Union Stock Yards & Transit Co. was touched off, authorities believe, by a cigaret butt flicked from careless fingers. The hay acted as a blow torch on the surrounding tinder-like constructions of sprawling Packingtown, the vast stockyards area on Chicago's Southwest Side. Almost daily fires are extinguished in Packingtown. But when the dreaded "all-out" 4-11 signal clanged through the city's firehouses, firemen knew that this was no ordinary stockyards blaze...