Word: statesâ
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...been to limit their manufacture, sale and the giving of information to individual States. Nineteen States have clear and definite legislation essentially similar to the Federal statutes. Twenty-five other States have more ambiguous laws relating to "obscene, vulgar and indecent" objects or written matter of "immoral purpose." Four States???Georgia, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina? have no legislation on birth control. One State?Connecticut?goes the limit, no exceptions, even to prohibiting the use of any "drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception...
...states???Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma ? were affected by the 6.6¢ cut made by the Standard of Indiana. In addition, the Standard of Kentucky made a cut of 1¢ in Kentucky, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama. Georgia. The Standard of Nebraska cut its retail prices to 16¼¢. Slight cuts followed in the Eastern states. W. C. Teagle (President of the Standard of New Jersey) declared that, unless crude oil prices continued to fall, further cuts in retail gasoline prices were unlikely...