Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-12-01
VERTEBRATE.

Rev. Alice r. Palmer has removed to
Indiana.
The Michigan state convention will take
place March l.
The United Presbyterian church is in the
front rank of the conflict.
The Prohibition National Executive Com
mittee will meet at Chicago December q.
There is an increase of fifty-four places
paying the Dow liquor tax in Ohio for the
year ending July, 1900.
Rev. n. D. Clarke. candidate for Con-
gress from the First district in '96, has
returned to Minnesota.
Wisconsin Prohibitionists will banquet at
Milwaukee Jan. 8. National Chairman
Stewart will be present.
How many times have you determined
10 get up club for Backbone? How many
times have you sent us one?
Ten thousand films and negatives, in
part improper, were seized Dec. 9Th. at
New York The proprietor was also ar
rested
John G. WOolley has become the sole
owner of the New Voice, and assisted by
his son Edwin c., will devote his life to
that work.
The Minnesota Soldiers Home is said
to be the only one in the United States
In which alcoholics are not used in med
ical treatment.
A brewing company put up It's signs all
over Evanston, ILL.,, temperance town.
Students of the Northwestern University
made huge bonfire Of them.
r;oo r,oro,ooo+ 10. s+r,,,I, NJ;
cago, New York and Philadelphia. Mayor
Carter Harrison of Chicago has revoked
the licenses Of considerable number of
liquor-selling dives.
It looks as though saloons would soon
be driven from the boulevards and pleas
ure drives of Chicago. The Pioneer Press
says, ''The Twin Cities get along finely
under similar regulations"
The National Prohibition Fund for 1901
and that for 1904 both raised in the last
six weeks, foot up over $4,000 Where is
the party that can show such faith, self
sacrifice and heroism as that?
Mrs. Efie A. Burgan, Princeton, State
w. c. T. q. superintendent of work among
lumbermen orders Backbone sent for the
winter to Is camps. She asks for addi-
tional contributions for this work
The endless prayer chain, which has so
terrorized the Mckinley politicians, will
be resorted to in England in order to Sc
cure the defeat Of Lord Salisbury, whose
position on the liquor question is not sat-
isfactory.
If you want 1.-The whole thing" on the
eanteen question, get 'The Canteen In the
q. 8. Army" by VIM. p. F. Ferguson,
managing editor Of the New Voice. Price,
postpaid, cloth, Is cents; paper, 40 cents.
Address The New Voice, 315 Dearborn St.,
Chicago.
Senator Tillman says, 'The South Caro-
lima dispensary idea prohibits the sale to
minors and habitual drunkards," but the
Daily State, published at Columbia, de-
clares 'There Is not q dispensary in the
city where little boy cannot buy whisky
whenever 1t Is wanted"
In the city or Gothenburg the convic-
lions for drunkenness in 1906 were thirty
one in every thousand of the population;
In 1900 they were ffty-four In every thou
sand, nm increase of seventy-four per cent
committee has been appointed by the
municipality to find out the reason for this
state Of affairs.
The Minnesota Conference or the M. q.
Church refused to adopt resolution en-
dorsing and commencing the work Of the
Anti-Saloon League. Several members
took the position that II the league were
to be mentioned favorably, the Prohibition
party, the w. c. T. q. and other organiza-
lions should also be commended.
Those Of our readers who ut our sug-
gestion put up at the Kendall when
In st. Paul, will thank us for sending them
to Just the right place. It Is central and
well managed In every respect. In the
restaurant you cnn get about anything you
want at reasonable prices and the kind Of
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