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...publicity. Abolished. In addition many minor taxes were abolished, including those on the following items: Cameras, films, firearms, ammunition, smokers' articles, slot machines, mah jong sets, objets d'art, jewelry, bowling alleys and pool rooms, shooting galleries, riding academies, yachts, deeds and conveyances. Taxes on lower-priced cigars were reduced...
Taxes abolished included those on jewelry, firearms (except pistols) and ammunition, mah jong sets, pipes, cameras, films, art works, yachts, slot machines, brokers, pawnbrokers, etc., deeds and conveyances...
...jong sets...
...Repeal the "nuisance" taxes: on cameras, films, firearms, shells, cigar-holders, pipes, slot machines, mah jong sets, sculpture, paintings, jewelry, bowling alleys, shooting galleries, yachts, playing cards. Also taxes on automobiles, motor vehicles and accessories...
...story goes: Selina Peake, sprite of poverty, married Pervus De Jong, Illinois potato man. No amount of grubbing could deaden Selina. After years of it, she could still stick radishes behind her ear and dance for Dirk, her boy, only "so big." Dirk grew up and trailed off into a dull love-jam involving a nice girl and a naughtyish one. Also, Selina, old and bent, peddled her potatoes on Prairie Avenue, Chicago...