10 Dec 1914
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Newspaper
Coatesville Herald
Location
Coatesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1914
Page
1
The item discusses hopes for the largest navy without new ships and quotes Beecher on fighting evil with practical tools. It also notes Russia's alcohol prohibition impacting 15 million people, praising gradual war‑driven reform and critiquing selfish work life.
The passage argues success comes from consistently doing small duties well and resisting petty annoyances and moral decay. It warns that failure stems from gradual sins over years, weakening moral structure and development.
Teachers nationwide say it is nearly impossible to educate a cigarette smoker. Harvard records show fifty years with no tobacco user at the top of the class, despite five in six students using tobacco. The message: break a small habit now before it becomes a full-grown tree.
A writer reflects on habit as second nature illustrated by a dog that followed a Presbyterian elder to church and slept on the rug after his death a Baptist successor. The piece cautions against blind routine and urges life to opportunities for the Master’s cause beyond mere routine worship.
A. B. Trentman of Ft Wayne, once a prominent businessman, is now an Indiana state penitentiary inmate for liquor fueled violence. Once able to control drinking, he was drawn by hangers on and bar owners who profited as he deteriorated. He shot and killed a man in a Chicago hotel and has since entered Michigan City prison.
Worthington Asher died in Fort Wayne following a long history of drinking with carbolic acid cited as a quickened end. The piece argues the liquor habit caused his death and that poison merely finished a self-inflicted decline begun years earlier. A Wayne News rebuts the coroner and notes.
Figures from life insurance studies suggest teetotalers live about 28 percent longer than moderate drinkers, equivalent to seven extra years, with roughly half the sickness rate. The note warns against implying alcohol prevents all harm and cautions about other health risks linked to degeneration of blood, kidneys, stomach, brain, nerves, and arteries.
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