THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, June 28, 1933 

* End of Prohibition in West Virginia & California
* Beer - liquor returns - Ratification voted
* Repeal of the Eighteenth 18th Amendment 

The front page has a one column heading: "West Virginia, California Wet" with subhead. (see images)
Complete with 22 pages, light toning and a little wear at the margins, generally in good condition.

Background: The swift, back-to-back ratifications by California and West Virginia—becoming the 13th and 14th states to approve the Twenty-first Amendment—stand out as a remarkably rare moment in American constitutional history. What makes their involvement particularly notable is the unique mechanics of the repeal process itself: the Twenty-first Amendment remains the only constitutional amendment in United States history ratified by state ratifying conventions specifically elected by the public, rather than by traditional state legislatures. This direct-democracy approach was deliberately chosen by Congress to bypass dry-leaning legislative leadership, creating a high-speed, nationwide domino effect where politically and geographically distinct states like agricultural California and Appalachian West Virginia lined up on consecutive days to dismantle federal Prohibition. Their decisive votes provided crucial momentum in the nationwide surge that ultimately brought an end to the "noble experiment" just five months later, permanently fundamentally reshaping federalism by returning complete alcohol regulatory authority directly to individual state jurisdictions.