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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1886
Page
4
Words from the Temperance Column denounce rum and the liquor trade. It urges readers to support Prohibition, denouncing demagogues and urging Churchmen to vote against saloons. The piece portrays prohibition as moral safeguarding of home and church against the wine cup and political corruption.
Miss Ida Small married Mr. Om Haight at her brother's Brooklyn home after a ceremony by Rev. John T. Wilds. Fireman John Rooney of Engine Company No. 30 kissed the bride, recalled her 1880s World Building rescue when she escaped a Beekman Street fire by leaping between windows with a single wire as ladder crews aided from below. They plan to reside in New York City after a Washington trip.
Iowa advices say the Clark Prohibitory Law will wipe out remaining saloons. Thirty saloonkeepers were interviewed at Cedar Rapids, most will quit selling at once and seek reputable business. The Rum Power dies hard in Iowa, yet the great majority favor Prohibition and expect it to be upheld.
April 21 report from Stry Virsa details widespread deprivation after a great fire. Many victims lack food or shelter as farms are barricaded. body recoveries number sixty eight while twenty deaths in fields follow the flames. Umpires and corruption talk arise among baseball circles.
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