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Newspaper
Coatesville Herald
Location
Coatesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
3
The column lists advertising rates for display eight and nine inch single column measures and six word line limits, with five cents per insertion for deficits. It notes a one year, one dollar rate and references the upcoming Glorious Fourth in Indianapolis along with a moral reflection on speech and tattlers.
The text questions who should bear population responsibilities, contrasting workers like washerwomen with idle rich who indulge in luxuries. It urges shared duty to populate the earth while critiquing households with many pets over children. It ends by challenging Mrs Sangster to divide responsibility.
The author argues Americans should cultivate contentment to avoid heartburn, envy, and waste. Envying neighbors with cars leads to imprudent debt, while ambition is fine when debts stay reasonable and aimed at improving one's condition rather than pursuing luxury.
A Saint Louis physician warns that cigarette smoking is the worst tobacco use for young men, with smoke deeply inhaled into lung air sacs and entering the blood. The tiny membranes separate gas and blood, allowing poison to reach brain and spinal cord, impairing nerve function and life success.
The 1916 Chicago budget totals 27,434,791 with police spending at 7,323,883 the largest single item. Mothers and civic groups protest cabarets and vice, citing official inaction and urging dry referendum support as police resources rival seven million dollars for enforcement.
The piece notes about 24 000 in the country diverting daily dollars from saloons and claims that films about the beer trade mislead the public especially women and children. The Photo Play Magazine offers descriptive, positive depictions of the trade to counter the saloon image.
The National Conference of Charities and Corrections held in Indianapolis May 10 15 focused on alcohol as a root cause of poverty and crime. An anti alcohol exhibit from the National W C T U featured posters maps and charts, with panels on insanity and alcohol lent by the New York State Charities Aid Ass'n.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley reports in Good Housekeeping May issue on a trip to an Arkansas county seat. He notes hundreds of vehicles around the square and well dressed, well behaved shoppers, many of them Black, as stores freely extend credit. The proprietor credits strict Prohibition for prosperity, warning that reopening saloons would ruin business and set the town back decades.
A roadside sign reads This is the last saloon between Feru and Indianapolis 75 miles on the Kelley Avenue Club Bar in Peru. John Braden is listed as proprietor. The sign draws attention to the bar as a notable local landmark.
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