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As printed: Self Imposed Sentence To Bread And Water Convinces Judge Of Severity
ContextCounty Judge W. F. Bryant of Cedar County, Nebraska, 75 years old, has been sentencing liquor law violators to spells of bread and water, a punishment critics call cruel and inhuman. On Monday he began serving five such days himself to find out.
As printed: Southern Florida Losses Estimated High as $200,000,000
ContextThe hurricane that struck Miami and Miami Beach late Friday night, September 17, then crossed the peninsula, left the east coast shattered and drowned the Lake Okeechobee town of Moore Haven. The Red Cross now says it needs four to five million dollars at once for relief, against some $800,000 given so far, and puts the homeless at 50,000.
As printed: WEEPING WOMAN IS ON WITNESS STAND
ContextHarry M. Daugherty, attorney general under President Harding, and Thomas W. Miller, the former alien property custodian, are on trial in New York over the release of some $7,000,000 in American Metal Company shares impounded during the war. The government says the German metal magnate Richard Merton paid a $441,000 "commission," part of it in Liberty bonds handed to the late Connecticut committeeman John T. King, and today a young bank clerk follows two of those bonds.
As printed: City Charges Dog With Violating Traffic Code
ContextA Milwaukee man sued a city employee for $50 over an August 31 mishap involving a pail of tar. The city attorney's office has filed its defense, and it names the plaintiff's dog.
Philadelphia settles the championship tonight, the Daugherty–Miller bond testimony goes on in New York, and District Attorney Keyes says he may call witnesses from Douglas, Arizona in the McPherson case.