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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1920
Page
2
A humorous reminiscence recalls college days with Don Barnes in sartorial debates over neckties and a habit of discord. The piece mocks reformers and domestic life as futile, noting the stubbornness of people and the failed quest to change personal habits.
During our sophomore year we revised Don's neckwear taste noting quiet elegance and concern over his disregard for clothing worshipers tenets. He resented the critique and pushed back against our well meant criticism.
An article argues that individual habits shape social acceptance, noting openness to friends’ experiments with marriage while stressing how consistent personal routines influence others. It observes both men and women, youths and pets may prefer familiar patterns, implying self-sufficiency in lifestyle choices.
The piece criticizes reformers who cannot sleep over others' faults and imagine moral peril in everyday pleasures. It lampoons their obstinacy and pervasive fear of vice, suggesting they constantly envision doom for girls dancing and boys smoking, linking pleasure to illness and ruin.
The piece pities those who pretend reform, noting how a dancing girl may wed a preacher and a pool player avoid prison only to become a banker or mortgage holder. It contrasts the spendthrift turning down a pauper’s grave and eventually landing lucrative jobs for wealth, cars, and marriages, depending on taste.
The text notes reformers faced setbacks in anti smoking efforts after the war. Campaigns once aimed at cigarettes shifted to providing them to soldiers in care packages and churches, with women distributing barrels to support the troops. It laments ground lost that may never be regained and argues cigarettes gave comfort to doughboys in their final hours.
A district judge rules that cigarette presence in a woman's bureau does not prove immorality. The piece argues broader acceptance of women smoking, cigars, pipes, and chewing tobacco, insisting the public should support liberal attitudes without disapproval.
In a Washington Star excerpt Uncle Bill Bottletop doubts repeal will come soon, noting he dislikes prohibition yet wants skeptics to prove themselves before changes. The piece ends with a comment on gratitude amid prosperity.
Alliance resident Mrs. Celia Weaver reports kidney relief from Doan’s Kidney Pills after Holston’s Drug Store recommendation. She notes long lasting benefit over five years with occasional use and says the pills prevent return symptoms. Price 60 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N Y. Ad 12416.
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