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May 21, 1926

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Rum Seized on Paris; Two Officers Arrested; One Says He Was Only Guarding the Liquor

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A Fontaine, 2d Capt, and C Perrin, 3d Lt, arraigned before U S Comr O'Neil, N Y C, on charge of possessing liquor aboard; customs officials deny Fontaine's statement that he notified them of liquor and that Perrin was only guarding it

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THREE QUIT INQUIRY ON CAMPAIGN FUNDS; Reed of Pennsylvania, Deneen and Bayard Replaced by Goff, Fernald and King. MELLON TO SUPPORT VARE Fisher, Dry Candidate for Pennsylvania Governor, is 10,000 Ahead. THREE QUIT INQUIRY ON CAMPAIGN FUNDS

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Apptd member of Sen com to investigate election expenditures

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REPUBLICAN LEADERS VIEW VARE VICTORY AS A WARNING HERE; See Nomination of a Dry for Governor as Certain Invitation to Defeat. HILLES A LIKELY CANDIDATE Uncommited on Prohibition Issue, He Is Held to Stand Well With Both Elements. DRYS MUST STILL BE HELD But Party Sentiment Indicates Opposition to Writing of Plank by Anti-Saloon League.

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Repubs realize that drys must be held, but object to league's writing plank

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GOVERNOR EXPECTED TO CONVENE COURT FOR MILK INQUIRY; Graft Disclosures May Bring Call for an Extraordinary Session Here. TO CENTRE INVESTIGATION One Grand Jury to Cover All Boroughs, and Sweeping Prosecutions Planned. MORE INDICTMENTS NEAR Two Are Looked For Today, One Naming Cream Dealer, the Other an Ex-Health Official. GOVERNOR MAY CALL MILK GRAFT INQUIRY

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Health Officer Hagen seizes 1,040 qts of cream belonging to Davison Cheese Co of Jersey City; destruction of cream halted by injunction; F Fredericks reinstated

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1926Robert Creeley, American novelist, essayist, and poet (died 2005)^[†]

Robert White Creeley was an American poet and author of more than 60 books. He is associated with the Black Mountain poets, although his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. Creeley was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn.

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1926Ronald Firbank, English-Italian author (born 1886)^[†]

Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank was an innovative English novelist. His eight short novels, partly inspired by the London aesthetes of the 1890s, especially Oscar Wilde, consist largely of dialogue, with references to religion, social-climbing, and sexuality.

Headlines from May 21, 1926

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Rum Seized on Paris; Two Officers Arrested; One Says He Was Only Guarding the Liquor

THREE QUIT INQUIRY ON CAMPAIGN FUNDS; Reed of Pennsylvania, Deneen and Bayard Replaced by Goff, Fernald and King. MELLON TO SUPPORT VARE Fisher, Dry Candidate for Pennsylvania Governor, is 10,000 Ahead. THREE QUIT INQUIRY ON CAMPAIGN FUNDS

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