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In the Driftway
May 6, 1925 issue

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This article focuses on a strange problem. The daughter of a certain judge received a mysterious package left at her house by an unknown messenger, which, on being opened, disclosed a diamond and emerald bracelet valued later by a jeweler as worth in the neighborhood of a thousand dollars. The young woman could not keep the bracelet because her father was a public servant and the gift might be a bribe or an improper reward for services rendered. In America, this calls for legislation. The bill will provide that any generous person of any race, color, age, sex, height or weight, minded to make any gift ditto to any other person ditto, shall be encouraged in the process and no suspicion shall thereby be attached to giver, gift or receiver.

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GIFTS -- Law & legislation; BRACELETS; GRATITUDE; BRIBERY; BILLS, Legislative; UNITED States
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