Henry Watterson Denounces Prohibition Alliance at Blue Grass Fair
August 12 1907 in Lexington Henry Watterson editor of the Louisville Courier Journal declared opposition to Kentucky politicians allying with Prominent Prohibitionists. He denounced “isms” posing as progress and morality, warned against hypocrisy, and urged warning to the people about intruding reform sects that would reshape Kentucky into a Maine/Ariasas image.
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Massachusetts pastor backs license after Maine experience
The Rev. Parl C Davis of Unity church Pittsfield states he favors licensed saloons, arguing moral licensing could curb worse evils. He cites Maine towns Auburn and Lewiston as examples and says he refused to join the Anti-Saloon League. Davis plans to speak further on the issue.
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Anti-Saloon League
World decisive battles won by beer drinkers saga
Fragmented report recounts that beer drinking armies influenced major campaigns including eras under Peter the Great Frederick the Great Gustavus Adolphus Oliver Cromwell Blucher and the duke of Wellington with references to Napoleon and wealth. The text is garbled but emphasizes beer's supposed impact on warfare.
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Barley Named as Grain of the Ancients and Gods
The fragment discusses barley as the grain of the ancients and its praise as food and drink. It mentions Barley as linked to Osiris and claims it was first grown by the Nile, with a northern saga crediting Odin as a source of the grain’s discovery.
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Nile
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