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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1884
Page
4
Constitutional prohibition of intoxicants as beverages. Enforcement of all laws without fear or favor. Civil service reform. Wise economy in the people's money. A free ballot untainted by machine fraud bribery or bosses.
The Spring Election on April 7 calls Ohio voters to select qualified men for township and municipal offices. Parties present Republican and Democratic tickets, but voters should judge candidates on honesty, capability, and fitness, not party.
A provocative editorial asserts that suppressing saloon influence would empower slum elements to win office and deliver what the piece frames as rough justice, arguing a vicious cycle between vice and governance in urban politics.
A fragment discusses saloons, disorder, and a figure Tur Teldo Blade calling beer a derisive term. The text muses on naming a saloon with riot-related connotations, noting that RIOT-BREEDERS is blunt but not elegant for a saloon name.
The notice urges voters to back a candidate described as an open faced Temperance man. It emphasizes honesty and reform values and appeals to local electorate to show support in upcoming votes.
The number of post offices in the United States on March 20 was 48993, up 1135 from nine months earlier, reflecting steady expansion in the postal network.
Veterinary surgeons examine diseased cattle in Kansas and hold that the ailment was caused by ergot in wild rye hay fed to the animals.
A dispatch reports New York residents alarmed by a large amount of counterfeit butter circulating in the city markets, while saloon life continues under the shadows of ten thousand outlets.
A caucus issued in Chicago to form an Independent Republican Association aimed at nominating men for the Presidency who pledge reform and removal of spoils and boss systems.
A heated examination of Cincinnati’s riot starting March 28 lasting to March 31, with 48 reported dead and 139 wounded. The piece blames long standing vice and political corruption, especially saloons and a venal press, for fueling lawlessness and mass upheaval. It calls for closing the six thousand saloons as remedy.
A local reform note urges immediate action against saloons amid spring harvest tensions. The message condemns vice spreading through business life and calls for strong measures to close saloons along the line.
Fragmentary OCR note mentions bogies and rigging with unclear references to games. No definite events, entities, or dates are identifiable from the readable text.
Senator Mini of California introduces a bill to prohibit opium importation. The measure aims to curb opium, but the draft appears biased against Chinese interests and reveals discriminatory intent.
Widespread Cincinnati outrage follows alleged legal manipulation to bypass the Smith Sunday law as critics claim months of jury tampering have backfired. Public anger centers on those who gloated over prior legal wins now facing renewed scrutiny.
Rev. W. A. Williams of Franklin College New Athens Ohio buys Prof. T. N. Johnson’s stake in the Freeport Press. Williams is noted as a staunch Prohibition advocate in the state and the paper is expected to continue its policy of promoting sound doctrine as it has from the start.
A long metre duxology notes the whiskey extension bill failing in Congress last week. Distillers face financial despair, with calls for a Prohibition club to end the enterprise and push it into a bottomless abyss.
The Ohio State Journal urges closing Cincinnati saloons to curb mob passions and suggests testing Sunday closures, then nightly 10 o'clock curfews, potentially closing them entirely. It endorses a nationwide stand against the drink traffic as political tensions rise.
A fragmented note attributes a testimonial to P Dukehurt Supt of B and B R about a medicinal tonic. It claims relief from chronic malaria and diphtheritic sore but is garbled and reads like an advertisement for a drug with a reference to a book on cures.
On March 27 the resid tye of Mr. J C France was united with Miss Ina May Fran in a ceremony led by Rev. G W Pepper. Guests attended a pleasant gathering at the home of Mr. France. A second wedding, Fouch and Young, was held at Md abaliville with Rev. G W Miesse officiating and Kim Fouch of Sxhithville and Laux Young of Marghalville as the couple.
Regular quarterly meeting of stockholders announced to be held at the Henry’s office at 10 o clock on Monday April 7 1884. J. D. Norstern and J.D. Robinson serve as officers.
Mr Henry C George and family of Carrollton moved into Mertilla street property recently purchased from Mr John Henderson. The Henderson family will move to St Clausville Belmont county this week. The Ohio State case against Theo Kent for setting fire to Geigey's on South Market Street in January 1881 continued this week. witnesses examined and arguments heard. verdict likely this afternoon. Also to note a new Ohio Legislature law affecting teaching certificates valid in counties with provisions for revocation for misconduct, and a reference to The Century magazine and Sidney Lee.
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