South Outlawing Whiskey Prohibition Spreads in the South
The Literary Digest surveys evolving liquor laws as Georgia's prohibition victory signals a wave through southern states. It cites Union Signal forecasts Mississippi Alabama Texas and broader southern support for dry policy, while trade groups warn of revenue loss and tighter controls. Georgia's push is echoed by Texas measures restricting liquor transport, with bills penalizing shipments to noncompliant districts and taxing dealers. The New York World notes Dry expansion across Maine North Dakota Kansas Tennessee and Georgia, increasing the share of Americans living under statutory prohibition.
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Georgia
Union Sienal
Chicago
Oean
Alabama
Texas
Taylor
National Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ Association of America
Atlantic City
L. T. Dashiell
Nquors Co. Oo
House
Senate
New York World
Drys
Kansas
Maine
North Dakota
Union
Tennessee
Prohibition wave grows amid racial crime fears across the South
The piece argues that prohibition has failed in several states and will rise to about 8,000,000 under prohibition including territories. It cites dry communities under local option laws and southern counties with high license fees. It links saloons to crime, especially among blacks, noting negro slums and levee saloons in New Orleans and Vicksburg as engines of crime and recruitment for labor.
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New York
Massachusetts
Vermont
Rhodesland
Towa
United States
Communitioe
Springfield Republican
South
New Orleans
America
Vicksburg
Mississippi Valley
Uriah Heep cartoon targets Rockefeller over thrift virtue
The Denver News mocks John D Rockefeller as a hypocritical advocate of thrift while accusing his fortune of being built on unjust practices. It argues rebates and anti-competitive methods show the real cost behind wealth and condemns his public moralizing as harmful. Judge Landis later fines Standard Oil $29,400,000, seen by critics as akin to counterfeiting and robbing banks.
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Puck
John D. Rockefeller
Denver News
John D
Rockefeller
Landis
Standard Old Company
Standard Company
The Peril of Praternities in Public Schools
California enacts a law banning the organization and maintenance of fraternities in all publicly funded schools colleges and universities. The Chicago city school board and Inez Winter conclude months of impartial inquiry into fraternities.
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California
City School Board of
Chicago
Inez
Tmonnths
Fraternity Movement Criticized in Educational Debate
The Home Herald reports on a Wheaton College president Charles A Stenehard urging that publicly supported schools ban fraternities. He cites high schools leading in restrictions, notes courts backing boards of education, and argues colleges lag in curbing secret societies amid concerns of smoking drinking and dissolute behavior.
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Cian City
Home Herald
Charles A. Stenehard
Wheaton Colloge
Bourke
Boards of Education
Board of Education
Colorado Dam Permanently Secures Colorado River Break
The 60 foot Colorado River dam built by Southern Pacific engineers withstood prolonged flood tests. The river diverted water away from the dam, keeping the structure seven feet above high water. A crest road, telephone line, patrols, and rock-filled breaches ensured safety as water continues to flow toward the Salton Sea via New River and Volcano Lake to balance evaporation.
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Southern Pacific Railway
Colorado
Banka
Arizona
Southern Pacific Company
Salton Jom
New River
Paradones
Volcano Lake
Galton Sea
Circumstantial Evidence of a Presidential Hunting Trip
In Adirondacks guide Chick Bruce who guided Grover Cleveland recalls a morning when he left Cleveland momentarily. upon returning he found the president with a gun muzzle pointed at his chest. Chick warns the danger and jokes that a misfire would make him a Republican pariah. The anecdote reflects tall tale humor of the era.
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Chick Bruce
Adirondack
Grover Cleveland
Chick
Mr. Cleveland
Saturday Evening Post
Wireless telegraphy records 2000 mile reception at Mare Island
R R Murphy at Mare Island Navy Yard intercepted a message from the steamer President off Nome to North Head Washington, proving wireless range well beyond the prior 1064 miles. The admiral praised Murphy and will report the feat to Washington. A Cincinnati printer named Bacon killed himself due to illness.
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Fort Rosecrans
San Diego
Washington, D. C
Pacific Ocean
Mare Island Station
California
R. R. Murphy
Navy Yard
Nome
Alaska
North Head
Wash
Nome City
Mare Island
Murphy
Pacific Coast
Mare Island Navy Yard
Navy Department
Scientific American
Rooms Near Depot At One Dollar And Fifty Nine
A reader notice advertises rooms available a block and a half from the depot. An electric sign nearby draws attention to the offer with a low nightly rate of one dollar and fifty nine cents.
The Hotel Pendleton Refitted and Refurnished
The Hotel Pendleton has been refitted and refurnished throughout with updated telephone and fire alarm connections in all rooms.
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Northwest
Ajlrooma
Pendleton
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Frank B. Clopton & CO
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