Temperance advocates push for national relief measures
A temperance advocate challenges Secretary Moody with the need for nationwide relief for drunkards. The scene features gruesome visions of drinkers and a dry dock metaphor referencing Hunter's Point to imply ethanol remedies. The exchange ends as Moody reads a dry dock fact about the San Francisco shipyard.
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Secretary Moody
Naval
Statesman
Mr. Moody
Moody
Hunter's Point
San Francisco
Humor in marriage trends from a grass widow quip
A Chicago Record-Herald quip shows a grass widow asking why men avoid marriage while joking that talk of stopping divorces fuels fear the agitators may act soon. The line plays on marital reform debates and public sentiment.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Katzenjammer Kids Show and Holiday Bargains Listed
Duncan advertises Xmas goods with toys, from Duncan leading in seasonals to 45-66 listings. Shows Dec 15 Katzenjammer Kids and Blodell Fennessey musical comedy. Also notes Rev. Corkey preaching at 7:30 pm and a Wickersham lecture at the opera house.
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Duncan's
Duncan
Katzenjammer
Means & Stichter
Allen’s
Luce
Fairfield
Hugh Teeter
Wm. Davidson
Crawfordsville
Blodell & Fennnessey
Alexander Corkey
Presbyterian Church
Wickersham
Opera House
Best meals in the city at Means and Stichter s
Local notes list social visits and travel reports from Wellman and Chicago. Residents like Mrs A M Gardner Mrs Fred Holtz Mrs Rose Thorne Clapp and others were in Chicago or Wellman visiting relatives. Several men return from recent trips and a basketball game with the Co M team is planned for Fairfield next Tuesday.
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Katzenjammer
Means & Stichter
A. M. Gardner
Wellman
R. D. Echlin
Chicago
Fred Holtz
Brown
Richland
Rose Thorne Clapp
W. G. Thorne
Harry Ward
New York
Alexander Corkey
Presbyterian Church
Wickersham
Opera House
R. H. Walker
Mt. Carroll
Ill
New Southwest Limited
Milwaukee
Rock Island
Fairfield
Co. M Boys
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Nougherty
West Side
the Journal
Evening Journal
Horse and
Bugsy
Amos Alberson
Frank Webb
Ile
Indianapolis Journal
Human Nature
Philadelphia Press
Newberger
Chicago Post
Sons of Rest
Baltimore News
Miss Sweet
Zie
Mr. Sappe
Sweetzie
the News
Cloaka
Chidren
Coate
Coata
Coates
The
Washington County Press
Will Steele
South Side
Rich
Graham Theatre
Warren Moore
Washington
Iowa
C. H. Wilson
Fast Side
Baxter
A A. Baxtrar
Succe
Samson & Tivinaston
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