EXIT PROHIBITION
VOTE IN. TEXAS
STRONGHOLD>GOES "WET"
NEW YORK, August 25.
A Dallas (Texas) message states that after 16 years of prohibition voters of that State which, in recent years, has been one of the few remaining "dry" strongholds, voted to permit the sale of alcoholic drink.
Returns from yesterday's referendum today indicated a "wet" plurality of 50,000 votes.
The electorate also adopted by an overwhelming margin an old-age pension law.
On November 7, 1933, the repeal of, the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified by the thirty-sixth State of the Union. Last year six additional States were reported as having repealed their liquor laws. Texas has been part .of the "dry South" and in some of its counties there has never been a saloo" since it became United States territory.
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Evening Post, Issue 50, 27 August 1935, Page 9
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