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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jul 01, 1920
Page
3
A distraught woman recounts personal suffering from a partner’s drinking and urges other women to support prohibition in the December vote. She explains financial ruin, bearing children’s risks, and social harm, claiming broad female mobilization to press for an end to alcohol.
An advertisement touts Pinketies as a new vegetarian laxative that overcomes typical purgatives faults. It claims to increase regularity without sickness or dependency and promotes sold through an agent named Cairns Fost.
A Vehorrne resident returning from America recounts the shift from wartime liquor bans to full Constitutional Prohibition in the United States. He notes May 1 cessation of manufacture, two months later illegal sale, and the final step with ratification by 34 states. The piece outlines prior acts, court upholds, and the rapid rise of dry states leading to nationwide prohibition.
The article notes crime reductions in the first year versus the last year, claiming drops in assaults, larceny, and forgery among others, and discusses Prohibition's broader social effects. It questions constitutional amendments and reflects American confidence in prohibition as a path to health and morality while pondering state ratifications and the nation’s leadership.
KOORBOORA NOTES celebrates Miss We Major passing the scholarship exam with one pupil of Mr C W Chase. The Rife Club reports no shooting until after the annual census meeting. A successful Saturday dance raised nine or ten pounds for the Tennis Club, with prizes awarded to Mrs Goodwin Mrs Chase J D Wales and James Cook. Music by Miss My Lellan and MC Mr Ball enlivened the evening.
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