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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1897
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR shows postal office note with location hints near Putto Squees and Fiumi North East Corner. Reading is garbled but suggests a stray post office classification and rough grid reference. No clear event, date, or named entities beyond place-like terms.
A summary of U S postal rules on periodicals. Subscriptions continue unless the subscriber gives notice and pays arrears. If papers are not taken off the post office, subscribers remain responsible. Moving without informing the publisher can extend liability. Advance payments require notice to stop. otherwise charges continue. Courts view non‑collection or false returns as evidence of fraud. Updated laws allow publishers to arrest for nonpayment and improper discontinuation.
A historical Prohibition text urges a rousing April convention and earnest campaign. It condemns the Dow and Leversing reforms, attacks the saloon system, and emphasizes woman suffrage. It critiques Antisaloon League tactics and cites Wayne county delegate expectations and the Raines law investigation.
Prohibition faith pervades a four thousand resident mountain city encircled by the Emory river. The American Temperance University aims to educate leaders for the prohibition movement with a diverse faculty, modest endowment, and tuition aid for needy Scotch Irish students.
Lord Justice Grantham, famed Queen's Bench judge now aged over sixty, has long condemned liquor trade in Britain. He warned that his anti drink stance would be seen as a Prohibition crusade and feared it could target Republican ideas, recalling his Liverpool Assizes critique urging stricter action against houses selling liquor used in violent crimes.
The Voice reports Lord Grantham’s radical critique of drink’s link to crime. At Lancaster and Liverpool assizes he argued current regulation fails and officials neglect enforcement. He urged drastic measures to curb public houses and stop supplying liquor to enable illicit gains.
An enthusiastic gathering of Ohio Prohibition Party executives met in Columbus on December 31 to set dates for the state convention and draft a state platform. Gen. Walter B. Payne of Fostoria chaired at 10 a.m. with 15 in attendance. Rev. N Kieffer, H F MacLane, and others offered support. The April 6-7 convention was fixed, and a five plank limit proposed including liquor prohibition as primary and woman suffrage second. Charles M. Strickler elected to the Executive Committee. J. Benjamin resigned. The group pledged funds to cover expenses and adjourned after thanks to Payne and McCartney.
Stark County editor quotes Rev. C. C. McLane of California disparaging partial temperance efforts as sin and crime. The writer argues for absolute prohibition, claims any effort short of it is compromise, and criticizes the preacher’s stance as inadequate to the temperance cause.
A reader argues that temperance laws and taxation fail to end liquor traffic and warns against crackdowns that intimidate church members. The writer likens license measures to two collide on a single track and urges adherence to prohibition principles amid political pressure from Foraker era debates.
Allaboro Ohio writer rebuts Thompson on the phrase unconditional surrender used to label Nationals rejoining the Prohibition party. Argues differing concepts of principle and love of humanity, warns against conflating party loyalty with core beliefs, and defends inclusion of willing contributors regardless of wealth or status.
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