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A Great Day for Smoking Flappers

• Hearst's Sunday American, 1917 •

This short notice to the right reported on the arrest of three women for smoking in the Times Square subway station. The Georgia newspaper that printed this news item thought it odd that a New York judge saw fit to release them without so much as a fine.

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