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commission, but resigned after three months concentrate on his businesses. When Paris complained that commercial salmon traps were snaring all the fish before they could even reach Puget Sound or its tributaries, the state legislature took notice and, in 1935, outlawed commercial salmon traps in Puget Sound. As a bar owner, he didn't think that selling beer on
Sundays should be illegal and in 1934, he took his argument to the Supreme Court and lost. In 1935, Paris began publishing the now-iconic
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