MANNERS & MORALS
¶Chicago stickup gangs were equipping their getaway cars with rockets which enabled them to accelerate to 90 miles an hour in a city block.
¶San Francisco's Chinese girls, oxidized by Occidentalism, celebrated the Fourth of July by wearing skimpy bathing suits in the first American-style beauty contest ever held in Chinatown.
¶St. Louis drugstores began selling a ten-scoop, multiflavored ice cream sundae called "Forever Ample."
¶On order of the 80th Congress, postal authorities prepared designs of 15 new stamp issues memorializing, among other things, the U.S. poultry industry, the 50th anniversary...
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