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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1909
Page
2
The newspaper notes rising activity by prohibition supporters as the August liquor referendum nears. Dr Cromer and local papers bolster anti saloon work, with Rev J L Harley’s sermons energizing the cause and particularly mobilizing women in the city.
A reprint of Colonel Ingersoll and Dr Buckley correspondence on whiskey includes Ingersoll praising whiskey as the mingled souls of wheat and corn and Buckley countering with a cautionary reply about the skeleton in the closet.
A charged warning letter from Everett Blackburn of Kansas City accuses a mysterious toxic liquor, sealed in oak for forty years, of corroding minds and driving men to madness. The note labels the liquid a historical weapon and urges caution against its use by enemies.
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