Prohibition Leaders Attack Constitution in Crusade Debate
Representative Richard Bartholdt of Missouri denounced prohibition before the House District of Columbia committee, calling it a devilish device that harms families and constitutional liberties. He warned of a possible counter crusade and urged caution against federal enforcement while urging attention to the harms of drunkenness and government overreach.
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Washington
Richard Bartholdt
Misosuri
House Committee On
District of Columbia
Congress
United States
Town Saloon Exodus After Dry Vote in Westville
In Westville Illinois on May 1 a mass migration of saloonkeepers followed a local option decision. Most of the town’s thirty eight saloons, located in Georgetown township, moved stocks and operations to the Danville township area deemed not dry. The Danville suburb rapidly transformed into a makeshift saloon district with tents and shacks appearing to house operations.
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Westville
Hell's Half Acre
Georgetown Township
Lquor
Danville
Why Prosecution of Ice Company Halted
New York April 30 Special Deputy Attorney General James W Osborne declared in the supreme court the case of the American Ice Company was withdrawn from the January special grand jury because several members had financial interest in the company. Osborne said he could not proceed with jurors whose interests biased the case and that he intended to refer the matter to another grand jury. He asked that the defendant be denied access to the minutes containing all the state's evidence.
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New York
James W. Osborne
Supreme Court Today
American Ice Company
Mr. Osborne
American Ice Securities Company
Senator Elkins Buys Yacht for Daughter in Duke of Abruzzi Romance
Senator Elkins purchased the Marietta steam yacht, 173 feet, from the Carson estate executors and plans to gift it to his daughter Katherine famed for her rumored engagement to the Duke of Abruzzi. The Duke, Italy's Sailor Duke and Arctic explorer, is cited as a reason to cruise away from gossip.
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Marietta
New York
8. B. Elkins
R. N. Carson
Katherine
Duke of
Abruzzi
Italy
United States
Senate
Elkins
Davis seeks injunction against express firms over liquor shipments
Clarksburg April 30 E W Davis attorney for Davis seeks revived temporary injunctions against Senator Thomas C Platt and the Adams Express Company to stop refusing C O D liquor shipments to bonafide consignees in or out of state. The earlier Goff ruling had struck down the state liquor shipping ban as intrastate. The case reflects hardship on Crescent Liquor and other dealers as express carriers resume refusals. Davis, pioneer mail order whiskey man, runs West Virginia’s largest Hig Mail Order Whiskey House.
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Clarksburg
E. W. Davis
Thomas C. Platt
New York
United States Express Company
Adams Express Company
Crescent Liquor Company
Lquor
Johnson & Hoffheimer
Nathan Goff
United States Circuit Court
Hich
Goff
West Virginia
Express
Law
Davis’ Hig
Prohibition Party Nominates Sutton for West Virginia Governor
The West Virginia Prohibition party backs Oley Ord Sutton of Sutton for governor. Sutton declares a robust campaign to elect a pledged legislature to ratify a constitutional amendment ending liquor sale and manufacture. He cites past votes and projects 40,000 to 50,000 Prohibition ballots, promising statewide canvassing and a focus on temperance policy. Sutton, about 30, with broad business and study experience, has traveled widely and studied conditions in Britain and the United States.
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National Good Roads Bureau
United States
New England
Indiana
Illinois
New York
Agricultural Department
Prohibition Party of
West Virginia
Oley Ord Sutton
Sutton
South
West
British Empire
Taft Seen As Desk Worker President Who Finishes What Began
The piece portrays William Howard Taft as a hard working, deskbound leader who will finish existing programs rather than start new ones. It notes his disciplined routine, modest rhetoric, and unselfish approach, contrasting him with Roosevelt and highlighting expectations he will tidy up long pending matters, including Trust laws and canal completion. It also mentions Roosevelt’s balloon trip drawing attention and his landing on his feet.
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Taft
Brutus
Roosevelt
Mississippi Valley
Cuba
Islands
American
Theodore Roosevel
The Blarney Boy Poet Tribute in Independent
A lyrical tribute recounts Colette Ryan praising a lively cheerful figure nicknamed the blarney boy. The verse contrasts a radiant, youthful charm with a sober birth, noting his golden tongue and resilient spirit. It ends with an affectionate claim of deep friendship and kinship.
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Syre
Colette Ryan
the Independent
Good Roads and Smart Education for Rural Youth
A fragmented editorial argues speed of roads matters less than clock discipline, urging roads and infrastructure to link farms with cities. It warns bad roads hinder social life and limit education for farm youths, stressing intelligent, progressive schooling and balanced growth to prevent moral and mental decline.
Government To Pay Slaves Heirs Million Dollar L isses
Former slaves and heirs may receive up to 1 million dollars if a House committee bill favorably passes. The measure, long in Congress, stems from claims of Freedmen's Bank deposits lost after the Civil War. The bank failed, and for 35 years depositors or heirs have urged government reimbursement.
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Washington
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Congress
Senate
Freedmen’s Bank
Columbia Women Learn Life-Saving Drills At University
Columbia University trains women students in lifesaving with standard drills, grips, and towing to shore. A full dressed rescue is demonstrated in a fifty seven second relay across the swimming tank. Also promotes Dr Shoop Pink Pain Tablets as a pain remedy and circulatory aid.
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Columbia University
Shoop
Dr. Shoop
Racine
Wis
The Man and His Job by Herbert J Hapgood
A veteran tale extols thorough cleaning as a test of character and success. It recounts a Philadelphia newspaper office job applicant who chose sweeping over editing, later becoming editor, and Booker T Washington needing to sweep a classroom to gain entry to school. The Springfield Gazette quips about meat intake and the beef trust.
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Philadelphia
Tor
Booker T. Washington
South
Hooker
The
Springfield
Ohio
Beef Trust
Peanuts prices rise as dealer eyes 20 cent retail
Wholesale peanut shortages in Grafton push jumbo peanuts from five to seven cents per pound and salt ed varieties up four to six. A local dealer predicts retail prices could hit twenty cents per pound, expressing hope for market stability while noting he will set his own price. Also includes poems and brief observational notes about public figures.
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Grafton
Sentinel
Bee
Uncle Sam offers irrigation land parcels to settlers
Washington May 1 Nearly two hundred farms are opened for sale under government provisions in semi arid West irrigation projects. Each 10 to 160 acre tract requires residence and cultivation. Nevada 1000 eighty acre farms with eight dollar entry fee and three dollars per acre per ten years. Oregon Umatilla project twenty farms ten to twenty acres each priced 600 to 1200. South Dakota 175 eighty acre farms. Wyoming 200 on North Platte and 200 on Shoshone projects priced 600 to 1200. Speculators barred, ten year payment plan.
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Washington
Barain
Uncle Sam
Nevada
Trucker-Carson
Oregon
Umatilla
South Dakota
Wyoming
North Platte
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