Today -100: June 4, 1926:I thought every one would realize that it was only fiction

The Senate Judiciary subcommittee that held all those hearings on prohibition recommends shelving every single bill introduced to modify the Volstead Act or to modify or repeal the 18th Amendment, and it says there’s no legal authority for holding a national referendum on Prohibition.

In 1924 The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-5, by Cleone Knox, Edited by Her Kinsman and Descendant, Alexander Blacker Kerr, was published, an account by a young lady of her travels Europe and her scandalous love life in the 18th Century. Widely praised for offering insight into the period, it turns out the book was a hoax, perpetrated by Magdalen King-Hall, the then 19-year-old daughter of Adm. Sir George Fowler King-Hall. “I thought every one would realize that it was only fiction,” she says. No one did. She went on to write many other novels.

The Esperanto Congress in Madrid offers a cash prize for the best translation of Don Quixote into Esperanto.

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