Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prohibition, was purely a Prohibition byproduct, inasmuch as her four convictions had all been found on liquor charges. In 1924, in 1925, in 1927, she had served from six days to a year for violation of the prohibition act. The life sentence was imposed under the Baumes-like Michigan law which establishes four convictions as the test of a "habitual criminal" and sentences such criminals to life terms. Mrs. Miller has ten children, two grandchildren. Her husband is serving his first liquor-conviction sentence. Lest any feel that Mrs. Miller had been too severely punished. Dr. Clarence True Wilson, General...
...Rutland. The Pennsylvania might also branch up to Canada, and bridge over to New England, by way of Mr. Loree's friendly, temporarily isolated Delaware & Hudson,* and go into New England over the N. Y., N. H. & H. New York Central, C. & O. and B. & 0. would han le Michigan's automobiles, furniture and lumber; the B. & O., C. & 0. and the Pennsylvania the South's lumber and fruits northward bound and South America's raw materials U. S. bound. All four roads would touch Chicago, St. Louis and New York; and all but the New York Central, Baltimore...
...United States Senate fights over the naval bill and the peace treaty; Boston fights over Sunday baseball; everybody fights over prohibition; but Michigan is confronted by a problem vastly more penetrating, and even more odorous than these. Michigan fights over skunks. Recently biologists and furriers convinced the state legislature that skunks are valuable integral parts of a community, and as such should expect the protection due to any and all of the state citizens. As a result, it is now against the law in Michigan to molest skunks, even in the way of self protection, during the months from February...
...matter will form an issue in the 1929 legislature of Michigan; perhaps a Senatorial Investigation Committee will hold hearings concerning it. Such a hearing should be entertaining, with the enemies of skunks exhibiting disinterred clothes and sometimes embarrassingly placed bee stings against the evidence of the friends of skunks who will show the little allies of man eating obnoxious insects and in the form of furs. The hearing would be decidedly unfair were not a skunk invited to show what he could do in an exhibition of natural talent. Laws are too much based on nebulous theory; here...
Divorced. Howard Henry Spaulding of Chicago; by Mrs. Catherine Barker Spaulding, $30,000,000 heiress of John H. Barker, railroad car tycoon of Michigan City, Ind. Mrs. Spaulding charged habitual drunkenness...