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Newspaper
Coatesville Herald
Location
Coatesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1917
Page
2
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A column blends wartime rhetoric and social concerns with literary tribute. It notes indictments in Boston over onion trade conspiracies and argues for Roosevelt in France, then shifts to warnings for urban youth, and ends praising William M Herschell of the Indianapolis News for an honorary MA and a hopeful literary future.
An unsigned double page ad in Washington papers shows 2 082 637 laborers opposing cutting off temperate beverages. It lists 528 unions across 22 states and 774 cities. The piece urges rapid action by telegrams and letters to senators and representatives, noting the need to influence Congress during wartime prohibition. It stresses personal outreach and calls readers to phone neighbors to write promptly.
The Federal Council of Churches, representing thirty denominations with over eighteen million members, calls for immediate liquor prohibition as a war measure. It cites higher mortality among drinkers, reduced labor efficiency, contagion risks, and grain use for alcohol, urging national action to boost army and navy effectiveness and free production for war needs.
At its national convention in New York this month the American Medical Association adopted resolutions declaring alcohol to be neither a food nor a stimulant. The move drew notable attention as a radical shift in public health framing.
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