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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1903
Page
2
Public notice style item with garbled text mentions subscriptions, address changes, and editorial communications. Reads as a routine postal or newspaper notice: subscription details, pricing, and change of address instructions with partial dates and costs.
Magistrate Tighe at Brooklyns Butler Street Court condemns whisky as cause of poverty and distress. In Chicago circles a banker and capitalist urge prohibition, arguing a nonpartisan vote would surprise many with its strength. The speakers urge Christian business leaders to shed fears of the saloon and speed up reform.
A historical discussion argues that alcohol damages digestion and nutrition, weakens stomach function, harms brain tissue, and reduces red blood cells. It claims long term use inflames nerves, fosters disease, crime, and eventual mental and moral collapse.
On a New York City wholesale liquor route a survivor tells four travelers how 19 collaborators began weekly trips to New York and reporting. of the nineteen, all others were killed by the liquor sold, leaving him as the sole survivor and warning.
A narrator recalls a Niagara Falls visit in the national centennial year 1876 noting a man fell to the rocks 200 feet below. The piece links alcohol with ruin, recounting saloon deaths and personal tragedies, and ends with biblical warnings about sin and death.
Opinion fragment questions whether voting to legalize an action is moral robbery or crime, arguing the American citizen's vote is a force for moral progress or harm. It presents a stark choice between ethical leadership and civil wrongdoing.
A quoted circular attributed to William McKinley argues against liquor license legalizing the traffic. The author warns legalization would sanction a degrading pursuit and make voters partners to its evils, urging readers to resist licensing regardless of other political aims.
Fragmentary OCR text discusses alcohol consumption and temperance themes with garbled phrases about cleaving to vice and violence. It mentions drunkenness and murder, citing responsibility and public concern, but the exact details are unreadable due to corruption.
Washington DC activists urge swift passage of HRB 4072 in both chambers. Edie Dinwiddie signs a plea to Senators and Congressmen, detailing committee names and urging support from Judiciary panels to extend state power over liquor before and after delivery.
An odd clipping discusses Blondlot and invisible rays from mantles of the Welsbach Night in France. It also advertises a manager position in Chicago with salary and expenses, plus a quip about necessity and invention.
An unidentified wild woman was found more than 10,000 feet up in the Bernese Alps by an English hunter. She was starving and scantily clad, terrified of people, spoke an unknown language, and her origins remain a mystery. Authorities suspect she fled from roaming robbers and has been wandering the Alps for months.
Trustworthy lady or gentleman to manage braiers in this County and adjoining territory for well and favorable known House of financial standing. $2000 straight weekly salary and expenses paid each Monday by check direct from headquarters. Expense money advanced position permanent. Address Manager, 610 Museum Bids, Chicago.
Notice is given that stockholders of The Wooster Preserving Company will meet at the company office in Wooster Ohio on Thursday January 15 1904 at 1 oclock PM to elect a Board of Directors for the next year and handle other lawful matters. L P Olinger president. Attest J W Wilson general manager.
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