4 days of original coverage, September 19, 1926 to September 30, 1926, one clipping a day from the papers of 1926. Newest last, the way readers lived it.
ContextCounty Judge W. F. Bryant of Cedar County, Nebraska, 75 years old and fourteen years on the bench, has been sentencing liquor law violators to bread and water. Critics call the diet cruel, so he proposes to find out for himself, beginning Monday morning.
As printed: JUDGE GOES ON BREAD, WATER DIET HIMSELF
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. He said he would find out for himself, starting this morning.
ContextProhibition has been national law since 1920, and liquor-law cases come before local judges like Wilbur F. Bryant of Hartington, Nebraska, who has long sentenced violators to bread and water.
As printed: Officials Abandon Diet
ContextBread and water was a punishment diet then ordered for prisoners in federal custody. Arthur W. Henderson and Howard T. Jones are officials of the Department of Justice.