PROHIBITION ABANDONED
TEXAS GOES “ WET.” AFTER SIXTEEN YEARS. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright NEW YORK, Aug. 25. A message from Dallas, Texas, states that after 16 years of prohibition the voters of that State, which in recent years was one of the few remaining “dry" strongholds, voted to /permit the sale of alcoholic liquors. Returns from yesterday’s referendum fo-day indicated a “wet” majority of 50,000 votes. The electorate also adopted by an overwhelming margin an old-age pension law.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19665, 27 August 1935, Page 7
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