Maine Prohibition Battle Shapes World Interest in 1900s
Augusta Maine August 10 sixty five years ago the Maine legislature passed the first statewide prohibition law setting a model for the world. As the September election nears debate intensifies with prohibitionists led by Mrs L M N Stevens of Portland and the W C T U focusing on constitutional ban. The anti prohibition campaign is led by the Maine Non Partisan Local Self Government League urging local self rule.
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Augusta
Maine
Commonwealth
Friends of Prohibition
Maine Sunday School Association
United States
Europe
Local Self-Government League
League Work Carried On Systematically Across State
The league operates with methodical care and strong backing from four leading state newspapers. Its efforts proceed quietly yet thoroughly, maintaining discipline and coordination across the region.
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League
Lightning Clause Insurance Note in Lipscomb & Co Ad
An insurance real estate ad from Lipscomb & Co highlights a lightning clause and urges policyholders to include this important addition. The listing provides the firm’s phone contact as 109.
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Lipscomb & CO Insurance Real Estate
Carnival at Long Branch Opens with Queen Detonation Parade
Long Branch New Jersey August 10 1911 annual August carnival opened with the carnival queen detonation followed by the firemen parade and prize contests Governor Wilson expected tomorrow to review the children's parade.
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Long Branch
N. J
Wilson
Tomrow
For Sale Farms in Oconee and Wilkes Counties
Notice to home seekers from J P Wise real estate dealer offers 1000 acres across Oconee and Wilkes for sale at a bargain within sixty days. Purchasers can have smaller parcels. Written or in person inquiries at Bogart Georgia.
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Oconee
Wilkes Counties
Bogart
J. P. Wise
Four youths charged with murder in Altoona case
In Gadsden Alabama on August 10 Luther Thompson Joseph Saulsberry Wiley Goforth and C F Curvin four youths from respectable families faced a preliminary hearing for the murder of Nicholas Shentzen the German hermit miner. The victim was beaten and decapitated and his body hidden under his cabin. After the crime the four reportedly traveled to Birmingham spent money then vanished. two were later found in Shelby county and two arrested in Arkansas.
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Gadsden
Ala
Luther Thompson
Joseph Saulsberry
Wiley Goforth
C. F. Curvin
Nicholas Shentzen
Altoona
Germany
Birmingham
Shelby County
Arkansas
Walbridge Buffum Wedding in Narragansett Pier
Prominent summer residents gathered at the bride’s Newport parents’ summer home in Jamestown Rhode Island for the August 10 wedding of Miss Margaret Buffum of Newport and Charles Walbridge Carter of Philadelphia The Rev C D Burrows of Newport officiated with assistance from Rev Arnold Hord of Germantown PA
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Jamestown
R. I
Newport
Narragansett Pier
Margaret Buffum
Charles Carter
Walbridge
Philadelphia
C. D. Burrows
Arnold H. Hord
Germantown
Holiness Camp Meeting Opens at Indian Springs
The annual Holiness camp meeting at Indian Springs near Jackson Georgia began today and runs until August 20. One of the souths largest yearly assemblies, the event features prominent leaders including Rev W Path of Pahoa and Dr H C Morgan of Asbury College Willmore Ky among others.
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Holiness Camp Meeting
Jackson
Indian Springs
South
Pahoa
W. Path
Apd
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