Has-Been Who Came Back Finds Dry Town Reward
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union frames the piece on Walt Mason and his "Has-Been Who Came Back." Editor William Allen White notes Mason rose from drinker to success after moving to dry Emporia Kansas where the town's prohibition stance aided his career. Mason recalls arriving with little and choosing Emporia over offers from major cities. Moral: a has-been can return in a dry state.
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Walt Mason
Walt
Kansas
Willam Allen White
Emporia Gazette
The
Gazette
Emporia
Mr. Mason
Chicago
New York
London
Missouri Saloonkeeper Quits Liquor Trade Amid Prohibition
A Missouri saloonkeeper, cited by Union Signal, locks his door and proclaims quitting the liquor business as dead. The piece argues wets’ sentiment, noting war-time shifts push men toward legitimate industries and align with the President’s closing edict to free labor for essential wartime work.
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Missouri
Union
Prohibition Letter From Lloyd George to Poling
Daniel A Poling, preparing to depart for the United States after participating in Canada’s prohibition effort, received a significant unsolicited letter from British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. He notes wartime alcohol controls in Britain and signals readiness to follow America’s prohibition campaign if further restrictions are needed.
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Canada
Daniel A. Poling
David Lloyd George
Great Britain
United States
United States of America
Harry Lauder Bids Whisky Beating Work
George Adams reports in the Association Men's News that during a camp visit Harry Lauder declined the whisky offered in his honor saying the cauld water is the best drink for a man who has work to do.
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George Adams
Association Men’s News
Harry Lauder
Life sentence lines from Omaha Slim on whisky law period
Jack Lait in Hearst's Magazine quotes Omaha Slim discussing whisky manufacturing and wartime law. He argues the wartime period ends with a life sentence, questioning if rights will return after the war and claiming the era's proud institutions may come back when absent.
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Jack Lait
Hearst's
Omaha Slim
Pape's Diapepsin Offers Quick Indigestion Relief
An advertisement promises instant relief for stomach upset, indigestion, gases, acidity, and bloating after meals. It promotes Pape's Diapepsin tablets as the surest, quickest stomach relievers available at low cost in drug stores.
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Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
U. S
Ottawa
Pape
Rat Is Friend of Miners
Investigators note miners feed and care for rats in California mines believing rodents warn of unsafe tunnels. Rats react to dangerous gases before workers, prompting miners to monitor rat health as a safety signal.
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Rat
Mother Lode
California
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promises Internal Cure
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications. medicine works through the blood on mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is a tonic and blood purifier, taken internally. claims to address constitutional conditions. Druggists sell it for 75 cents. testimonials available. BF, J Cheney & Co, Toledo, Ohio.
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Hall
J. Cheney & Co
Props
Toledo
Hickory Leg and Cedar Chest Bench War Brag
A boy boasts his grandfather fought in the Civil War and has a hickory leg while a rival quips his sister owns a cedar chest. In Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. Also an ad for Cuticura hair remedy promising dry hair, dandruff relief, free samples from Boston and available soaps and ointments at druggists and by mail.
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Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
Dept. X
Boston
Kaiser's Response to French King Questioned
Quotation marks a sharp exchange about honor and the Kaiser. the critic notes the French king's claim and counters that his Huns never possessed honor to lose. The remark emphasizes perceived barbarity and moral contrast during wartime rhetoric.
Unity of Command Theme in Family Dialogue
A brief Life magazine style caption captures a father and son debating the idea of absolute command. The son asserts unity is vital for victory while the father counters that the mother values it. The exchange reflects midcentury wartime rhetoric in domestic life.
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Son
Dad
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Promises Vitality Boost
Advertisements tout Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as purifying blood and increasing strength and energy with a tightening, invigoration claim. An Ola boarding-house line hints at a bachelor seeking matrimony while Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are pitched for digestion and bowel health.
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Grove
Price Oc
At the Table. Henry’s witty line on tongue and duty
A brief humorous exchange where She asks how to serve tongue and Henry replies with a sharp retort. He then muses on life as a stage and the idea that success equals duty well done, framing duty as personal performance.
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Henry
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