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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1883
Page
5
The text advocates constitutional and statutory prohibition of intoxicating liquors, equal enforcement of laws, civil service reform, prudent use of public funds, and a free ballot protected from machine influence, fraud, and boss manipulation. It emphasizes honest voting and anti-corruption safeguards.
The Maine House votes 104 to 37 to order engrossed the Prohibitory Amendment to the U S Constitution. An attempt to exempt the order fails 56 to SQ.
Mr. Vin Doorn introduced a bill last Friday to indenture and adopt inmates of children's homes, aiming to prevent their removal by unworthy parents.
In parts of Germany police now enforce a rule prohibiting boys under sixteen from smoking in the streets or entering establishments that sell intoxicating liquors alone. The move aims to curb youth access to tobacco and alcohol.
Medina legislator Licey introduces a bill to grant local justices original jurisdiction in liquor law cases. The measure is considered good but unlikely to pass.
In a convention the Prohibitionists voted to urge the Governor to convene a special session of the Legislature to ratify the prohibition amendment to the state Constitution. The amendment had been declared null by the Supreme Court for informality.
Mercer county representative Mr Miter was found drunk and committed to Columbus city prison. He was brought before the circuit judge of Mercer county, declared insane, and committed to an asylum.
Hos LE B Eshinman and partner Edwin Myers acquired the City Times last week. Eshinman will oversee editorial work while Myers handles the mechanical side of the business. The Times will be thoroughly Democratic.
A railroad engineer named E GrxEER McGuire was killed in Painsville. The article reflects on the emotional impact, telling of his four year old son awaiting his return and discovering his father is dead, a touching scene that underscores the human cost of the accident.
Massachusetts Governor Briek voiced support to Mrs. Susan B. Anthony asserting that women have a right to vote under the fourteenth amendment. He believes the court will affirm this interpretation, arguing it would be the quickest path to the long struggle for suffrage ending in victory.
A description of a newly minted nickel showing a classical Goddess of Liberty head and a wreath of cotton, wheat, and corn on the reverse. The obverse features Liberty with a tiara and thirteen stars, and the reverse includes a Roman numeral for renomination, the motto E Pluribus Unum, and United States of America.
A belated passenger recounts General Sheridan’s unseemly conduct at the Vincent house dinner on Monday. He berated a dining room girl for serving others and then left when reminded that staff were strained by a rush, leaving onlookers disgusted.
The piece urges Ohio legislators to amend the constitution to allow amendments via special elections and cites Representative W P Van Doorn’s resolution for a 1883 ballot. It argues the temperance issue should be decided by voters, condemns whiskey interests and praises soldiers and citizens for preserving the nation.
Washington special reports Maj. Butterworth of Cincinnati praising the whiskey tax during the Bariff Bill debate. He argues the tax protects a $100,000,000 interest while critics say whiskey use in the army harmed battles and sanitation. The piece likens the defense to demagogic claims and notes public anger at pro whiskey stance.
The Ohio State Journal argues for a practical amendment proposed by Representative Van Doorn. It says changing the organic law should occur before broader amendments are pursued and warns that many amendments are unlikely to pass. The piece calls for bipartisan support and unified tickets to adopt the measure.
The Baltimore, Pittsburg and Chicago Railroad project relies on Wooster citizens. If they show pluck and enterprise to complete Killbuck Valley, a critical through route becomes a certainty. Now is the moment to act.
A Health ad claims a hungry man shortly after meals signals dyspepsia and that Dr Jones Red Clover Tonic cures stomach liver kidney and bladder troubles. It proclaims tonic properties and malaria relief, price 40 cents, Laubach Donnelley.
Marriages recorded on several dates in 1888 include John I Swinehart and Emma Berry near New Pittsburg February 13, Sven A Swanson and Anna M Swinehart near Wooster February 15, Alva Rush and Anna Cameron at Jeromeville February 13, and S F Rumbaugh with Louisa E Mellinger at Reedsburg February 1888.
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Grain prices updated with per bushel and per barrel rates for wheat rye oats barley timothy seed clover seed flax seed flax seed wool salt wood hay and related ton and cord units. Prices shown include wheat 100 and 148 per bushel, barley 0, flax 15 per bushel, hay 800 per ton, wood 300 per cord, salt 75 per barrel.
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