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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1883
Page
4
Constitutional and statutory ban on intoxicating liquors as a beverage. Enforcement of all laws without fear or favor. Civil service reform. Economy in the use of the people’s money. A free ballot, trammeled by no machine, no ballot-box stuffing, no fraud, no bribery, and uninfluenced by bosses.
The Second Amendment movement builds pressure as voters head toward the election. Organizers tout gun rights advocacy and mobilization efforts aimed at influencing turnout and policy debate.
The Toledo district party nominates Col. Seth M Barber formerly of Ashland as their candidate for State Senate.
The Northern Pacific Railroad was completed on last Thursday and officials plan to drive the golden spike on the sth of September signaling completion.
The United States has about 114000 miles of railroad a debt near 7000000000 dollars and this vast obligation might trouble a rural editor when imagined as a personal debt rendering.
The Tennessee Prohibitionists urge the Legislature to submit a constitutional amendment forever prohibiting the manufacture importation or sale of alcoholic stimulants as a sweeping prohibition wave moves forward.
Hoy. E. B. Esuerman, editor of the Akron Times, told Medina News that the Second Amendment would receive a large vote in Summit county and that many politicians would be surprised by the statewide support.
The Columbus correspondent of the Cleveland Leader cites polls from Jackson, Pike, Fayette, Marion, and parts of Western Reserve counties showing heavy majorities in favor of the Prohibition Amendment.
The late Michigan senator Zach Chandler wrote a Detroit citizen praising a government postal telegraph in 1872. He argued timing favored adoption and that the Constitution gives the government a right to transmit intelligence by telegraph as well as by mail.
The Alliance Standard notes saloon keepers and liquor interests secretly favor the first amendment for licensing and respectability, while opposing the second amendment to preserve their business. It warns temperance supporters risk permanent licensing if they back both amendments and urges steadfast principle.
A Patterson based company is described creating convincing fake eggs. The process layers yolk from Indian meal and corn starch, forms a ball, freezes it, coats with a chemical white, adds a shell, then dries. The finished product closely mimics a genuine egg for sale.
Interview with Mills Gardner outlines state wide campaign for the second amendment led by the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. He reports large mass meetings in Cleveland Columbus and McConnelsville with broad cross party support and plans for county and township committees to spread tracts and organize voters. Gardner criticizes liquor laws while asserting prohibition as the only solution and predicts strong rural backing with Brown County cited as a model of unity among party lines. He stresses personal sacrifice and says all parties will vote their tickets but unite on this issue.
Publication offers the best Prohibition document with 55 speeches delivered by Hon. Jot B. Finch. Priced at $1.00, available for purchase at the Herald office.
A jumble of names and places lists affiliations across towns and precincts including Wooster Sugar Creek and Creston with multiple individuals such as J. T. Wisner M. Roan H. Warner and others. The fragmentary OCR reads like a local political roster or committee assignments across counties with unclear roles and jurisdictions.
John A. Thomas advertises first class pianos organs and sewing machines at rock bottom prices. A large stock includes Saegt music books accordions violins guitars and other musical merchandise. Buyers urged to inspect before purchasing from unscrupulous parties.
Beautiful New White Sewing machine offered at the New Home office on West Liberty street. For inquiries call or address David Stoner Woolster O.
Market list shows prices for wheat flax seed and other commodities in Wooster. Entries include old and new wheat rye oats corn barley timber hay wood salt and wool with unit prices per bushel cord ton and barrel.
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