Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1903-09-01

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you which will be worth much more to
the cause than that. We ask you to In
troduce Backbone into SEVEN new
homes. In order to make this very, very
easy for you we offer the paper a year
to your SEVEN subscribers who pay
THEIR OWN subscription for SEVEN
cents each. See?
The Anti-Saloon League will hold
state convention at st. Paul in February.
DR.. S. c. Swallow, the fighting par
son. of Pennsylvania, is on the stump In
Massachusetts,
Texas now has 1875 dry counties and the
LIQUOR men are In fear or prOhD1tlOn LOT
the entire state
There are 1,Oss Catholic Total Absti-
nence Unions in the United States, with
a membership of 49, 29.
Thos. H. Coggins, a late resident OF
Chetopa, Kan, willed his property, valued
at SO, 900, to the Prohibition party.
The college prohibition work of the
nation is graduating some strong men to
the permanent Prohibition lecture plat
form.
Last years consumption Of liquor in the
United States amounted to 19.4S gallons
per capita, as against 4.S gallons hfty
years ago.
may be able to find the one man that
wants your business, farm or property
Let me try.-H. N. Beardsley, sos NJ Y.
Bldg, Minneapolis, Dept. B.
The Swedish Railroad Mems Total. Alb,
stinence Union recently held it's national
convention at Gothenburg. It has 1881
members, distributed over As railroad
lines.
Georgia passed prohibitory law when
only a little colony, antedating that "a ~ OF 7
1923 out of 1877 counties under some form
of prohibition.
The Security Trust and Life Insurance
Company of Philadelphia is the latest to
81 vI,~
are physically sound and who abstain
from alcoholic beverages.
Current Prohibition papers were placed
in the cornerstone of church recently
built. All local papers were excluded pc
cause they contained liquor advertise
ments. This is a CLEAN of sunshine from
the better day coming. :.
The st. Paul Bethel is now in Its new
home on Wabasha street, between Third
and Fourth streets It's Heo five stories te6 can
Clean and comfortable lodgings are fur
nished at from 25 cents to 81.
Yellowstone Park is owned and con-
trolled by the national government. One
hotels liquor is sold in large quantities.
Many protests have been made to the
Secretary Of the Interior without result.
Stage drivers get drunk and imperil the
lives of the tourists.
The Worlds Fair at st. Louis will be
the first to consider the question Of intern
perance. In group 1877 is found the LID
uor Question: arranged as follows: Glass
u.s. Legal regulatiSon1! OF the liquor or
liquor trade Glass $50, Efforts for les
sening intemperance."
On August 27 the Prohibitionists of the
nation unveiled, at Newton, ILL.,, monu-
ment to the memory of Hale Johnson
who was assassinated on election day last
year. He was chairman of the Prohi-
bition State Committee and nationa! COM
mitteeman at the time Of his death and
was the Vice Presidential candidate on
the Prohibition ticket in 1896.
The former proprietor of the St. James
hotel Minneapolis, had no love for the sa-
loon. Yet for seventeen years the St.
James contained bar, because ne con on.
sidered it business necessity. A few
months ago the property was purchased
for the use of the Union City Mission, the
liquors and cigars were put out, and today
the st. James is doing bigger business
Arthur c. Mellecan Of the University Of
Washington, travelling secretary Of the
Intercollegiate Prohibition Association, is
at work in California. Prof. Chas. Scan
stu i L Iowa. Col. John sobiesKi and
F. w. Emerson are at work in Ohio. DR..
Stephen Bowers, formerly editor of the
n1a RI ng Soe is H hod % twenty be mt nez
from September 25 to October 5.
A prohibition declamatory contest to
determine who should represent Minneso-
ia at the Grand Diamond medal contest
t e he W the at e Non
vember, was held at Minneapolis on the
18th inst. Each Of the four contestants
had previously won a silver, gold, grand
gold and diamond medal. Arthur Man
uel Of Canton, Hamline University stud
ent, won the coveted honor.
There would be less sickness and fewer
premature deaths If every home had a
copy of the book alcohol a Dangerous
and Unnecessary Medicine" by Mrs. Mar
tina NJ. Allen National W. c. T. U. Supt
Alcoholic Medication. Its chapters upon
Diseases and Their Treatment" and
cines) are very valuable. The book is
highly commended by officers Of the
American Medical Temperance Associa-
ton. Price $l.25. Send direct to Mrs.
M Do1o