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Arizona State Miner
Wickenburg, Maricopa County, Arizona
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Women in Minnesota are burning thousands of billboards along public highways to enforce a new state law prohibiting such signs, claiming they disfigure scenery and make travel unsafe. This crusade prompted legislative action, with calls for other states to follow.
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There have been thousands of bonfires in the state of Minnesota since the first day of December, and thousands more will be started before the new year is a month old. Billboards advertising pills, powders, paints, and other things are being torn down and burned in accordance with a new state law which forbids signs along public highways. It is a woman's crusade. They said the state's best scenery was being disfigured by the billboards and travel made unsafe, and they forced the legislature to act. Other states should do likewise. They will if the women will it.-Capper's Weekly.
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Minnesota
Event Date
Since The First Day Of December, Ongoing Before The New Year Is A Month Old
Outcome
billboards torn down and burned; new state law enforced
Event Details
Thousands of bonfires lit to burn billboards advertising various products along public highways, as part of a women's crusade that forced the legislature to pass a law forbidding such signs due to disfigurement of scenery and unsafe travel.