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...makes manufacture, transportation and sale, however trivial, a felony, it imposes no new penalty for illegal possession of liquor, an omission which may be welcome to many. That the new law is in the nature of "protection" for U. S. citizen-bootleggers; for, since offense is a felony, aliens found guilty can be at once deported, restricting the field largely to native or naturalized businessmen. First reports on the operation of the Jones Act detailed that: 1) In Philadelphia a judge sentenced Paul Groggo, 15, to five years' imprisonment and $10,000 fine; later the judge suspended the sentence...
...accident, dropped a heavy piece of steel. It fell upon the flat, glass-paneled ceiling of the Senate and went crashing through to the floor. Dismayed, the workmen hurried to see which of the 48 stained-glass State seals in the Senate skylights had been broken. Awestruck, they found that the missle had missed all the State seals, missed also the figures of Peace, Industry, Valor, etc., and had singled out for destruction the great Horn of Plenty from which gifts of flowers and fruits pour down upon the U.S. people's most august representatives...
...married an Australian officer, Colonel Harold Arkell Smith, who begot her two children. Some five years later she discovered her tendency to transvestism, yielded to it, renounced home and family, courted and married Druggist's Daughter Alfreda Emma Howard, moved to the congenial military centre of Andover, and found apparent happiness...
Life is never easy, for the Scottish inhabitants of Fair Isle, that rain-drenched pin point of an island in the Shetlands, north of Scotland. Last week the dour-faced inhabitants, who make gaudy sweaters for golfers while they think about Death and the precepts of John Knox, found life almost intolerable. A mysterious disease caused thousands of sparrows to drop dead about the Fair Islanders as they sat grimly at their knitting. No local scientist could explain why the sparrows were falling...
...document was found by Thomas several years ago in the storage room of a New York law firm among the papers of a Mr. Gallahan who was Ericson's lawyer. The papers at the time were unclaimed and were deemed to be worthless. Thomas however rescued this and several other valuable records out of the mass of papers...