Today -100: February 21, 1926: I didn’t know that one was expected to lie in order to enter the United States

A sniper haunts the streets of Omaha, shooting into lit windows and killing 2 people over the last 3 weeks.

In recent discussions of Prohibition in Congress, Rep. John Hill (R-Maryland) claimed beer is not intoxicating. Schlitz Brewing Company helpfully offers to send each congresscritter a case of beer to test this proposition for themselves.

Vera, Countess Cathcart, explains that she’s in this mess with US immigration because she told the truth about her divorce: “I didn’t know that one was expected to lie in order to enter the United States.”

German novelist and screenwriter Artur Landsberger says German movies are failing in the export market because of all the hand-kissing. Non-Teutonics prefer to see that newfangled lip-kissing.

The NYT runs a State of the Klan survey showing kluxer decline, in influence as well as hood count, in every state.

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