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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1911
Page
9
The Battle Creek police statistics from 1907 to 1910 show rising drunkenness and linked disorderly conduct despite local option in effect since May 1 1909. Arrests for drunkenness rose from 302 in 1909 to higher figures, with notable edge in February 1910. chief W. H. Farrington criticizes local option and argues that properly regulated saloons would reduce crime.
Calhoun farmers face a proposed bill moving through the House liquor committee that would ban all manufacture sale or furnishing of intoxicating liquors in Michigan including cider and wine. A farmer risking a barrel fermentation could be a law violator and pro prohibition advocates push reforms while Kalamazoo reports no arrests for seven days amid a dry county landscape.
The Battle Creek Moon reports brewers and local officials backing a license limit of one saloon per 1,000 residents if Calhoun county returns to license law. A City Council proposal would cap at one saloon per 1,090 inhabitants to cut saloon numbers and improve quality. Local real estate owner F. C. Wakeham notes vacant stores rising and higher taxes since local option.
Battle Creek Daily Moon reports forty three vacant stores for rent with over $20,000 reduced in rents and more than two hundred vacant houses. Local option blamed for outmigration of about 250 families, swelling vacancies and weakening tax receipts due to lost income and coal money in the market.
Market list from Marshall shows prices for wheat, corn, oats, rye, cloverseed, hay, rye straw, middlings, bran, corn and oats ground, linseed meal, butter, potatoes, turnips, onions, parsnips, cabbage, vegetable oysters, and meats and poultry. Entries cite figures per ton or per unit from multiple sources including J G Beckwith and S E Cronin with various buyers and sellers.
A reader testimonial from Macenhter Ohio describes rapid relief from fierce night coughs and croup in children using Dr King’s New Discovery. The notice claims thousands benefited and offers a trial bottle free and medicine for sale at J W Bradshaw for 1.00.
In the period before a revival and conflict with Israel, Syria under Benhadad II led a raids on Damascus allied territories, devastating villages and farms. The piece likens alcohol as an invading king, with saloons, distilleries, and advertising as a modern army threatening homes, wealth, and morals. It portrays Ahab’s survival against King Alcohol and urges temperance through religious renewal and discipline.
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