TAX ON ROISTERERS
FOR NOT GOING HOME LANDSTUHL (Germany), April 26. Roisterers have to pay hero for the privilege of “ not going home until morning.” The town council set a tax of 10 pfennigs per man on everybody found in saloons between midnight and 1 a.m., 30 pfennigs between 1 and 2 o’clock, and 50 pfennigs between 2 and 3—which latter . hour is closing time. Proceeds from the tax are turned into savings accounts of 50 marks (about £2) each for every fitli—and following—child of all large families. The bank books will be handed to the beneficiaries when they reach the age of 14.
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Evening Star, Issue 22032, 18 May 1935, Page 25
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104TAX ON ROISTERERS Evening Star, Issue 22032, 18 May 1935, Page 25
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