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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1900
Page
2
A Journalist argues editors should gift readers the best of rival writings by properly crediting originals. The true measure of a paper lies in overall quality, not just its own material, and editors must showcase diverse thoughts with proper attribution.
The piece condemns liquor and its social cost. It cites daily beer consumption levels and vast yearly totals, links alcohol to deaths and crimes, notes “schools of hell” in Manila, and argues prohibition impacts women and children, highlighting billions in profits and religious references.
Carroll D Wright notes the social cost of drinking, while the U S Commissioner of Internal Revenue reports 36 581 114 barrels produced and consumed in 1899. Indiana records 7170 saloon keepers 877 wholesale liquor dealers and 57 brewers for 1900.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox argues New Yorkers drift from churchgoing yet embrace a "Great Fountain of Earnest Thought." She praises a shift to personal study, direct communion with the mind, and a religion of right thinking over traditional church rituals, predicting broader adoption of these ideas.
A Montreal Herald anecdote shows how a punctuation error altered a telegram. Jim Wardner, claiming to be an old friend of Tom Shaughnessey, got transportation home after the misread message “Don’t! Let Jim walk!” led to final approval.
Volcanic eruptions aside, Skin Eruptions heal with Bucklen’s Arnica Salve claimed to cure sores ulcers boils felons corns warts cuts burns and more. Sold by W L Piper a local druggist at 25 cents a box with guaranteed results.
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