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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 27, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 21.

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High Hats and Gin Mills

COMMENTING on the law passed by the Colorado Legislature imposing a penalty of ten dollars for the first offense of wearing a high hat in a theater, the New York Voice remarks: "It is strange how wise legislators will strain at a hat and swallow a gin-mill."