Big Picnic Rally Urges Prohibition Support September 2 1915
The Prohibition forces plan an all day picnic at the county courthouse area on the d day of September. Citizens are urged to attend with baskets for a county wide temperance event featuring prominent speakers and church representation. The message says a ballot defeat on September 14 would harm the temperance cause and predicts about five thousand attendees. Mayor G R Hendricks signs the notice.
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Tevery
Court House
Temperance
G. R. Hendricks
Clear Stand Against Prohibition Dispensation
A speaker urges voters to oppose reinstating the dispensary system on September 14, arguing it harms civilization and morals. He contrasts the dispensary with blind tigers, condemns legalized sale, cites Kansas values, and warns church members to reject the policy despite potential revenue. L. B. Wieains.
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Blind Tigers
Prohibition
Kansas
Prohibition Rally And Picnic At Pickens Planned
A large crowd is expected for a Pickens event on September 2 featuring a prohibition rally and picnic. Organizers promise a full day of entertainment with no expenses spared to ensure attendees have a good time, urging residents to put this date in their plans and join in the festivities. The message frames King Alcohol as taking homes and families, calling for participation in the community gathering.
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Pickens
Speakers at Community Rally Led by Bethea Upshaw Seaborn
Sunday schools and citizens assemble at the depot at 9.80 and march to the courthouse. They form in the courthouse at 10 o'clock for an orderly program with music, prayers, an address by Rev. Hiatt, and a benediction by Rev. Bailey with Mr Celie Seaborn and Lieut. Gov. A J Bethea present.
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A. J. Bethea
W. D. Upshaw
Cole Seaborn
Court House
Temperance Message From T V Powcerly Speech
Powcerly condemns alcohol calling it a liquid hell that harms families and workers. He argues abstinence will protect wives, children, homes, and laborers, preferring a temperate honest movement of 100,000 over a large drinking bloc.
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Tad
Mississippi River
T. V. Powcerly
Drunkenness Described By Mr Gladstone In Vivid Terms
The eminent English statesman Drunkenness is portrayed as a force that destroys reason memory and beauty, inflames the blood and weakens strength. It is a witch to the senses a devil to the soul a thief to the purse and a companion to beggars causing wife sorrow and children hardship.
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Mr. Gladstone
Something the matter with Kansas says a leading editorial
A Philadelphia North American editorial argues Kansas thrives despite drought and heat due to prohibition. It cites $200 million bank deposits, high farm wealth, low illiteracy, and minimal pauperism, attributing prosperity to the 1881 prohibition amendment and low liquor consumption relative to Missouri.
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Kansas
Sansay
Massachussetts
Boston
Missouri
Kaw
North American
Philadelphia
Prohibition Debate Letter Urges Pickens Rally and Vote
Dr Silas Swallow presents a legalist tale arguing prohibition benefits, citing Maine and Kansas as proof and contrasting with liquor towns. The writer praises sober prosperity, urges Pickens County turnout for a September 9 rally and to vote for prohibition on September 14.
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the Sentinel
Silas Swallow
Hic
Maine
Kansas
Park
Eivery
Hampshire Line
South Carolina
Pickens County
Pickens
Prohibition
L. W. Jonngoy
Wine as Pleasant Fellowship Turns to Eternal Judgment
The passage contrasts initial wine with final divine wrath, noting early pleasant fellowship and joyful evenings giving way to endless perdition and unquenchable fire, emphasizing a shift from agreeable stimuli to eternal punishment.
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Christ
L. BE. Wieains
Call To Order
D. W. Hiatt
J. C. Bailey
Mr. Célie Seaborn
Col. W. D. Upshaw
Usic
L. E. Wiggins
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