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...State for 75 years. Arthur Robinson Gould was elected in 1926 as one of its Dry Senators. Last week Senator Gould, 72-year-old Yankee, was involuntarily shown to be not so Dry as many of his constituents had supposed. The revelation came during a legal squabble between two grape juice companies in Federal Court in St. Louis.* A distributing company was suing a producing company on the ground that its product was inferior, that it spoiled in customers' hands before turning to wine as guaranteed. To defend itself the producing company exhibited testimonials from satisfied purchasers. One testimonial...
Many a citizen who read his newspaper last Sunday morning was reminded of a charred keg down in his cellar, which he had filled weeks ago with nothing more intoxicating than grape juice, cane sugar, pure water. He was reminded also that he had done nothing since about the mixture, but that soon it would be fermented, turned to glow-giving wine...
...normal shape. You know, I like the way European cities take care of their people. The large parks, the wide boulevards, the sidewalk cafes! Say, it's nice to sit in a cafe and have something. If Prohibition hadn't interfered, California would be the greatest grape-growing region in the world, making better wines than France, and we'd have cafes with little tables...
...real estate and conducted prayer meetings there. Northern business men and methods opened a new field for northern political ideas and attitudes. Ruth Bryan Owen had to adapt herself and did so grudgingly. Besides the new Tariff ideas in her party, she balked at Tammany and the "grape juice" tradition of her family was affronted by the Smith wetness. She refused to let the National Committee use her photograph...
...your issue of August 6, on pages 34, 35 and part of 36 is an article concerning mail order champagne. Evidently one Paul Garrett is conducting or has conducted this campaign, as noted on page 34, to relieve the overproduction in the grape industry...