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Fort Worth newspaper ads and articles from 1930

The Year Was 1930: Helpy-Selfy, Scarface, and Poindexter

Posted on January 27, 2015 by hometown

The year was 1930. Gandhi led a march of two hundred miles to the Arabian Sea with seventy-eight disciples to protest England’s monopoly on salt in colonial India. Hostess Twinkies were invented. The Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code) began … Continue reading →

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