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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1897
Page
5
A fervent temperance appeal urges voters to back Prohibition, denouncing the liquor trade and saloons. It calls for open air meetings, strong local campaigns, and moral suasion backed by law. It stresses church leadership, citizen responsibility, and the need to defeat the saloon through ballot action.
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a remedy for kidney and urinary problems. It claims relief for back pain frequent urination and promotes sample bottles and pamphlets mailed to readers. It lists price fifty cents and one dollar and notes newspaper guarantees.
A historical call argues one in five U S families must supply a boy to the liquor trade. It appeals to readers to support prohibition as protection for women and children and to end the legalized saloon seen as a moral social and financial burden.
New York gains three Pennsylvania Lines entrances at Cortlandt Street Desbrosses Street and Twenty third Street with two new double deck ferries to start May 16 linking Jersey Street station to Twenty third Street. Through trains westbound arrive New York city bounds 9:30 am to 9:30 pm. The river trip offers a grand waterfront panorama of docks and ships.
The Tennessee Centennial Exposition will run in Nashville from May to October. Special low round trip tickets via Pennsylvania Lines are offered for this event. For fares and travel dates contact a Pennsylvania Line Ticket Agent or assistant general passenger agent O S Ku epart in Cleveland Ohio.
In a National Convention the Prohibition party proclaims prohibition as essential to social and political stability. It calls for state and national laws to ban manufacture import export and transport of alcoholic beverages and invites allies to join while preserving conscience on other issues. The resolution asserts voting rights should not be denied due to sex.
The Ohio Prohibition Party in convention declares a sober government under God. It calls for suppression of alcoholic drink traffic, denounces licensing and current Dow law, and urges unity across parties to end saloon influence and protect citizens. Minor emphasis on equality and labor interests.
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