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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1905
Page
1
Citizens pack the city hall for a heated meeting on a law and order ticket. Candidates include Mayvor and Lindstrom with city officers and ward representatives named. organizers debate saloon and dance hall policy amid claims of manipulated resolutions.
About 50 to 60 citizens meet at W O W Hall to back an anti gambling and dance hall platform. They call a mass caucus for Monday at 8 P M in city hall council room to nominate candidates pledged to enforce morality, economy, eight hour city contracts, and public works under the Law and Order ticket.
The city council passed the new bicycle ordinance permitting wheel use on sidewalks or streets with defects. The session also approved general election rules, ward polling locations, and street improvements while detailing sewer plans, costs, and related protests.
Citizens of Aberdeen assemble to urge city council action on electric and telephone rates and municipal ownership, health enforcement, milk and food inspection, and eight hour contracts. They back Montesano road work, second class city status, and repeal of unenforceable ordinances, with strict candidate obedience.
The caucus debated Section 6 to abolish dance hall licenses and curb gambling, voting to close open gambling while keeping revenue from earlier licenses. I C Finch challenged powers on telephones and municipal lines. sections on licensing and platform actions were debated and approved. Caucus nominations followed, with Dr. Watkins winning health officer and ward meetings planned for next Saturday.
All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Groves’s signature appears on each box.
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