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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1885
Page
4
In a call to readers the Wayne County Heraid urges hundreds of subscribers in arrears to settle what they owe. The paper emphasizes the need to meet obligations and provide value, noting prompt payment would enable improvements and reduce anxiety.
From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette dated January 16 1885 a temperance note argues that Republicans will not adopt the Prohibition party’s sole principle and must pursue their distinct tasks without that agenda. The piece urges recognition of separate roles and actions accordingly.
Mas Bain wife of Col George W Bain serves as President of the Kentucky Woman’s Christian Union, guiding local religious and charitable work in the state.
Brenson Michigan liquor control board posts the names of habitual drunkards to deny sales publicly. The list is displayed in council posted notices and public places to limit alcohol access.
Four Toledo police officers were expelled from the force for drunkenness and neglect of duty, authorities say, as the department enforces discipline and public accountability.
A bill has been introduced in the Georgia Legislature to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors throughout the state with exceptions only for medicinal purposes. The measure seeks a comprehensive statewide ban and faces committee review.
Jupee J. B. Foraker General John Beatty General Robert P. Kennedy Judge George K. Nash and General Charles Walcott are named as Republican candidates for Ohio governor.
The Governor of Maine issues a proclamation announcing the adoption of the constitutional amendment banning the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in the state.
Crzery is praised as a great remedy for nervousness and a pleasant medicine to take. Dipping in salt and munching a white crisp stalk during a nervous attack is favored over chewing rhubarb root for dyspepsia.
The Detroit Free Press reports that some young women have started eloping with champion roller skaters while older women resist swift changes in affection, promising to disrupt the status quo.
In a Boston lecture on Mormonism on Monday Rev Joseph Cook warned that if Mormonism grows for twenty years it will hold political power in every state west of the Rockies except California and Oregon.
An 1870s language note records a man stating a dema vog is a vessel holding beer wine gin whisky or any intoxicating liquor. The remark appeared during a discussion on word meanings in St. Louis. He emphasized the vessel name as a drinking receptacle in a casual definition.
Fred Doverass urged the Women's Convention in Providence that the right to vote should be universal. He argued women have as good a right to the ballot and can use it as intelligently as nineteen twentieths of the voters in the country.
The Ohio Legislature Democrats met Tuesday to discuss temperance policy. They debated a plain license amendment versus a graded license with fees from 50 to 500 dollars. A resolution to submit a license proposal to voters on the October 1885 ballot was adopted by the House with near unanimous support half a dozen members dissenting.
The piece reviews Legate of Kansas as a controversial witness before the Springer Committee, recounting his boasts about selling St John, and detailing alleged facts about attempts to influence the Ohio ballot. It challenges Legate’s credibility and outlines the Committee’s findings, while noting broader calls to recast parties and enforcement actions in Keokuk.
In Carrollton Alabama temperance forces have routed saloonkeepers, forcing their prompt departure. Exiled in nearby towns, the expelled licensees cannot find shelter, with Na ville Memphis and Fairfield cited as unwelcoming.
The item notes how a fifty cent hat cost equates to three pounds of beef or a new pair of rubbers and mentions how many men skimp on their families to feed needy acquaintances, often delaying purchases for economy. The passage reflects thrift pressures and social tradeoffs amid scarcity.
Mrs. Annie Wittmeyer muses that land valued at twenty dollars per acre and a five cent glass of beer would, if invested, pave the way to a good home and prosperity, implying small purchases can yield long term benefit. The remark frames frugal use of money as a path to land and stability.
An eighty year old man, David Doprey Fielp, stresses exercise as his key to health. He claims daily walking about three and a half miles from home to his office keeps him in good condition and attributes his well being to his sturdy constitution.
A wrecked patron is loaded into a wagon by three men from a saloon as a crowd laughs. Police take the drunken man to the station while the saloon keeper and patrons share a grim joke about his drinking.
In a letter to the Enquirer Garn argues temperance affects Western states with climate-driven agitation. He compares liquor’s impact at high latitudes to Sweden during the Vasas era, claiming intoxicants can drive national unrest toward conflict or war.
In Canada rebels warn they will dynamite Montreal City Hall to block enforcement against tavern keepers who stay open Sundays in Hochelaga. The note suggests public opinion and stricter prohibitory law as the remedy.
Democratic Legislator Mr Auton O Myers claims a Democratic Supreme Court judge urged him to introduce a bill repealing remaining Scott law provisions. Myers refused, saying the court aimed to kill the law and complete a judiciary murder. He compares the court to a campaign committee.
New York correspondent reports J. R. Parsons and John H. Oberly, both of Wooster, named chairs of the viteocratic State Committee. Oberly says Ohio will not be represented in the Cabinet, while Manning, Mitchell, Bayard and Garland are rumored as candidates.
The Ohio State Board of Agriculture approved a resolution by forty five to two that it is the convention's sense to exclude malt and alcoholic liquors from state and county fairgrounds. The note adds that aroused farmers will push the drink traffic from the grounds.
The people of Olympia Kentucky have voted to abolish rum selling as one hundred warrants were served this week against violators of the local option law. The county prosecuting attorney oversees the cases and pledges enforcement of the law.
A woman in Lynn Massachusetts was arrested for stealing a jug of gin valued at eighty five cents. She attempted to conceal it under her shawl but the garment had too many holes, exposing the theft.
A defeated group of liquor dealers in Fort Scott Kansas used a black man to viciously assault William Stram a leading advocate for prohibition in the town. The article states the rum pirates in Kansas are determined to continue their illegal activity and must be stopped.
Neal Dow predicts Maine prohibitory law changes will force convicted liquor sellers to perform hard road labor as punishment. He argues the public will support the tougher penalties and visible public punishment.
The census reports 1 2000, 00 children in the country and 10,000,000 enrolled in public schools. Writers argue the figures support a compulsory education law to ensure school attendance.
Hon. Joan P. St. Joan opens the Prohibition campaign in Kentucky on Peb 12. Hon. John B. Finch participates in the field event and outlines March state actions.
Citizens flood the Tennessee Legislature with petitions seeking passage of a prohibitory amendment. The action urges substantial approval amid debate over the proposed change and its implications.
Representative Bueur introduces a measure to cancel the recent temporary extension of time on whiskey in bond granted by Secretary McCulloch. The move unsettles distillers friends while Mr Mills of Texas predicts the bill will die in committee and end the subject this Congress. The Secretary pressed for congressional endorsement of his action and the 18 million loan to distillers.
Representative Ware of Kentucky introduced a bill in Congress to abolish the office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue and do away with the entire internal taxation system. He asserts whiskey interests pushed the measure and argues revenue blocks the liquor trade, claiming tearing it down would free the people from the daunk traffic.
The Philadelphia Call states it does not know the solution for liquor traffic yet rejects the criminality of the business. It notes saloons breed crime and defiance of law and that even lawful operation causes poverty and city costs, calling the practice wrong in every view.
Mrs. Lauue F. Cuarin of Charleston D C says towns have seen Prohibition overturned by black voters. She accuses whiskey interests of buying support by promising involvement in the liquor trade.
Camden grows hardline as nine council members vote against licenses. If anti license bloc can elect five of nine in spring, they gain a majority over licensure supporters.
The piece argues the shooting of Rossa makes him a martyr to the Irish cause and the laboring poor, while claiming he is the victim of his own incendiary actions, likening him to a house arsonist trapped by flames.
J C Rinder of Burlington Wisconsin touts ATHLOPHOROS as the only agent that destroys blood poison causing rheumatic pain and inflammation. He says it cured him and others, calling it the most wonderful medical discovery of the age and an invaluable specific.
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