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...Morris County, N. J., Anna Horvath, 14, large, buxom, went frequently to shops, purchased cigarets. Since New Jersey law prohibits tobacco sales to minors, complaints were filed, shopkeepers were fined $10. Since New Jersey law awards fines to the complaining agent, The Commonwealth Humane Society of Woodridge, X. J., got the money. Last week a justice of the peace investigated. He found that Stephen Horvath, father of big Anna Horvath, was president of the Society. Mrs. Bietra Horvath, mother of Anna, was secretary & treasurer. Anna Horvath was a trustee. Stephen Horvath had made $100 per week in fines...
...Russian waiter . . . nonchalantly approaching an elderly American gentleman . . . who has been waiting for one hour to have his order taken . . . and asking for a light for the cigaret that dangles from his nether...
Unimpressed, the Court sentenced Alchemist Tausend to three years and eight months in jail. The Court expressed the opinion that, in his most convincing demonstrations, Tausend had concealed gold foil in a cigaret, flicked the ashes into his crucible...
Persons requiring hospital treatment included: Jack Dempsey, for infected hand; Author Gouverneur Morris, for burns incurred when he got out of his automobile to see why it would not run, dropped a spark from his cigaret into the gasoline tank; onetime American Baseball League President Ban Johnson, for a serious infection of his right little toe which was trampled in a crowd...
...Cigaret Democrat. Jubilant Democracy, back in office for the first time in 16 years, swarmed up Boston's Beacon Hill, packed themselves in under the great gilded dome of the State House to watch Joseph Buell Ely become Governor. Out on the Common guns boomed. Governor Ely's inaugural address recommended: 1) a $20,000,000 bond issue to help unemployment; 2) legislative action to memorialize Congress to modify the Volstead Act; 3) a curb on labor injunctions; 4) investigation to regain for New England full control of the Boston & Maine R. R. and the New York, New Haven & Hartford...