davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-04-11

Thirty-two cities are at Trenton
pleading for home rule. On what
ground can the legislators refuse to
give it TO them?
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-04-11

That 7agman at the Maurer cross
ing died the death Of a hero, but
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-04-11

Judging from the numerous leaks
In the water main lately that new
~>xDt coming any 700 soon.-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-18
Nv Tvoor,oh;t.


Ritch - I. z. l.7s \,
Who speeds round the world at a tef-
A car all regardless of trolley or ditch
In which he is skidding both early and
late;
But better by far is my little machine.
A small combination OF ratchet and
wheel,
In which in sheer ioyousness daily I'm
My rare little. fair little. Typomobile.
De Ritch Is quite properly proud of his
It's dandy. and spandy model Of
grace. tass
They say it runs on without joiting. or
And never another surpasses its pace,
And yet when it comes to the. depths Of
the sea
Or beauties the Heavens or hilI-tops RE-
veal.
The vistas of fancy, ah. then, give to ms,
My rare little. fair little, Typomobiie.
De Ritchs machine is confined to the
The highways and lanes, and the pixies
of the earth,
But mine, 1t can soar through the mist
and the haze
To regions of Mystery. Good Cheer and
While he is invading the highways Of
A flashing and smashing. tornado Of
steel,
] guide through the sweet-scented fields
of Romance 49,
My rare little, fair little, Typomobiis.
De Ritch makes stir as he PUSHES
through Spain, 81
Or chugs in his car from Sorrento to
Rome. IS ftf.
He raises the dust on the highways of
Maine. }.ss.
| Or possibly ventures to Dawson or
Nome; . 5..ss,.5.s.
But | with a tap of the twinkling key
To ancient Olympus. or Heiicon. SteeAs
/ Or push through the depths OF the StyE-
| ian Sea
My rare little. fair little, Typomobils.
Mars. Jupiter. Saturn-I thitherward spin
| When minded to do so for woe or Tor
| veal
| With ne'er a misgiving werriment Ia
| Ny rare little, fair little. Typomohiis.
So here's to the cog. and the ratchet. ana
bell; u.
The magic old keyboard that holds all
the keys
That unlock the doors, If we handle them
well. =
OF Iife's wondrous Riddles and deep
Mysteries;
And here's to sweet Fancy who speeds
Ii along.
And sets II to singing. type, ribbon. and
reel
The Joy of my days. and the theme ct
my song.
My rare little, fair little. Typornobile.
Carlyle Smith In Boston Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-18
REGULAR ANALYSES of City Water.
tAtlanta Constitution


Mayor VIM is to be unqualifedly COM
mended upon concluding an arrangement
whereby the city bacteriologist is to
chemically anayze specimens of ATTAIN
ta's water supply at least once week
during the summer months.
The largest and most modernly gov
erned cities of the world maintain regular
departments the function of which is to
analyze the municipal water supply not
once a week, but daily
Despite the utmost precautions, it is
easily possible for disease bearing germs
and impurities to creep into the water
supply.
Chemical analyses at regular and short
intervals detect these impurities at once,
and enable the authorities to apply
remedy before irreparable harm has
been done-exactly as the thorough ex-
animation at regular intervals of an ap-
parently well person often discloses in
cipient disease that can be nipped in the
bud.
1t is to be hoped the analyses can be
made even more frequently than once a
week Once every hour would not be too
often But the Improvement won by the
mayors initiative is a right step in a
very important direction.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-18
COMPEL THEM TO COME lN.p
Methods Adopted and Results Achieved
by Rector of New York Church,


An Episcopal priest in the city of New
York has determined that it is part of
his duty to go after the public and bring
ii in to his church services. and not
leave it TO the public to pass by unin-
Vited to enter. He tried the experiment
Sunday evening of having his choir of
40 voices sing before the entrance of the
church in order TO attract attention
That done he spoke a few words of well
come, accompanied by an invitation to
enter and participate in the services.
Two hundred, who probably would not
otherwise have attended services that
evening, responded
The interesting and original priest who
tried this experiment is Rev. Theodore
Sedgwick, and the church the famous
Calvary Episcopal Says one account:
Mutterings of rebellion spread through
the staid old parish, but at 10 minutes to
eight the choir, in surpice and gown
appeared in Fourth avenue and held a
brief song service for the benefit of the
street crowds, The surprise of the sing
ers when first informed of the innovation
was equaled by the members of Calvary,
which for years has been known as one
No'AANA
New York diocese. when they arrived
for the evening service, to find a great
crowd collected at Fourth avenue and
Twenty-second street with their choir,
choirmaster and rector ranged on the
plaza" of the church. for all the world
like detachment of the Salvation Army.
There We're no banners but the usual
musical instruments We're replaced by a
small portable organ with the assistant
organist in charge.
Well, why not? Yes. it was something
new, and at the same time violent dis
turbance of the traditions and practices
of the old parish church. In a broad
sense it was an infringement on the
traditions and practices of the famous
salvation Army and a nightly drop from
the heavy dignity that has hitherto by
many people been considered an essen
| tlal OF church procedure. We are sure
mat many of the worshipers in old Cal
vary We're shocked, and are still under
the influence of a kind OF bewildering
brain Storm They are shocked TO see
their rector and their choir enticina
strange people into church by suef
means. But, what of it? Are traditions
and practices so sacred that when They
cease TO exercise their fascination over
a community they are to be stupidity ad
| hered to?
Not much. All the dignity which the
rector of this church has sacrificed to ar
earnest attempfit to expand the useful
ness of the institution and make it's mes
sage carry farther will not weigh will
| the weight of a feather as against the
success secured. But no dignity ha.
been sacrificed. We have not the slight
est doubt that the outdoor ceremony was
extremely impressive, and that the in
door services which followed were spirit
lualised by the experiment.--NewH aver
Courier Journal. sel1 &C. mss = -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-18
Syndicated Rum Cartoons.

tLeWlSlOu JOuIDdIl
Anyone interested in the retention
of the prohbitory amendment will feel
under obligation to the author, of the
series of cartoons now appearing first
in the official organ of the open Sa-
loon-the Portland Argus-and then
syndicated in the various Democratic
and License newspapers of Maine
One of them appearing on Thursday
is entitled In the Wake of prohibit
ton" 1t depicts the interior of a
typical rumshup- There are the
bleary wretches in all stages of in
toxication-a gross, horrid and repul-
sive picture it is. 1t is supposed to
lend itself to the uses of the Ken
lucky Dstillers and Milwaukee Brew
ers who are footing the bills, but go
far as we observe this and other car
toons Of a similar type. simply serve
to arouse the Maine public to the hor-
ror, the degradation and Sin in the
Saloon itself and all its evasions. I'm
der license. We shall have not only
the kitchen dive. the Blind Pig and the
unlicensed brothel but we also shall
have the more alluring saloon, with its
back room and back door and the
same bleary, wretched, miserable,
filthy conditions high and low.
The New York cartoonist is real
ist. He is drawing from familiar
home scenes on his Maine job"
Hence he proves too much. He proves
that we as state want no share in
this business thus photographed from
license. We don't want to take /.
into partnership. We don't want to
legalize it. We don't want it run
ming our state, our legislature, our
social life.
As we have elsewhere taken one of
the cartoons of this high-priced New
York artist and adapted it to better
cause.-the cause of enforced prohi-
bition and the outlawry of the Evil
so we propose some day to show you
this cartoon IN the Wake of Prohi-
bition"-as we shall have adapted tc
the cause of Deceney and public NOR
ais and ask YOU If we are not indebt-
ed to the n. Y. artist. who draws SO
| farcefullv the true picture of License
As arguments for the Open Saloon the
cartoons are boomerangs. AS argu-
| ments against the sale of liquor they
are excellent. AS arguments for pro.
hihition and outlawry of the saloof
we are willing to adopt many of them
Democrats Responsible.
(Rockland Courier Gazette.)
Il am emphatically opposed" de-
lclares Hon. Obadiah Gardner in pub
llished newspaper interview, ito this
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-18
Where Poverty Is the Great Crime.

tBrOckton EnterpriSe.)
Great is the administration of law
sometimes. Here is an instance in
New York of the kind that makes the
judicious grieVe at the utter lack of
perception of the right thing to do
on the part of certain judges A gang
of tonghs went into an East Side
candy store and held up the proprie-
tor and created q riot A squad of
police We're necessary to restore or
der and gather in the thieves and
thugs a Judge assessed the mem
bers Of the merry party 81 each, a
sum which any gentleman is, willing
to pay any day for a good time. =
Then the police, also in the pursuit
Of duty, took before another judge a
poor devil who, amid the heat, find
ing all The seats occupied in Battery
Park. sat down to rest in the shade
on the grass on one of the killing days
of this week He was fined 3d. he
didn't have the money, so he was sent
down to swelter in jail three days and
come out marked as Jail bird, though
only a petty and pitiful one. For a
dollar less this man could have joined
a gang made life a hell for mer-
chant and caused a riot. Some New
York judges have no sense and some
have no heart or sympathy or trace
of human feeling. Massachusetts, for
tunatoly, has not yet come to a point
whore she often loads the bench with
a man who is sad joke or, who has
the attributes Of mankillers
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-18

brand of prohibition that we are now,
and have been, laboriug WITH 1t is
proper to hold Mr. Gardner and his
fellow Democrats Responsible for the
brand of prohibition" that Maine now
is tailoring with" 1t was easy when
that party was out of power to charge
the wicked Republicans With nullifica-
ton of the law, but since the Demo-
Gratis, flush with promises. came into
power their record has Leen a roaring
farce. The Portland Press, comment
ing upon Mr. Gardner's reasons for
preferring saloon control of Maine
says: In this Mr.. Gardner is out of
sympathy with the Grange. The
Grange as a rule stands for retaining
the amendment"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-18
Local Option in Vermont.

Rev w. II. Jackson, former pastor
of the Turner Street Advent church
of Auburn, and recently of Waterbury,
VT, where local option prevails Is WIS.,
iting in the State of Maine. His views
on the two systems of regulation OF
the liquor traffic may be Of interest
He says:
My message to the people OF
Maine is keep the prohibitory law
says Mr. jackson. Il think it is the
best thing for the State because II
has been tried and we know what 1t
has done. The State is better off NOR
ally, financially and every other way
because of ii.
vermont, under local option. Is
falling way behind The better ele-
ment in Vermont, realizing this. are
working hard to bring the state back
into the prohibition line and 1t is only
little while before the people Will
do away with the local option law.
when we have local optlon, towns
that are solidly prohibition, so wet
because the better class thinking that
it is all right, stay at home, For ex-
ample. in the town of Fayston, vi,
adjoining two larger towns--Fayston
being one of the smaller towns in the
state. with large dry majority-the
men stayed at home on election day.
The consequence was that the town
went wet and today the dry towns
adjoining. are annoyed very much.
The condition is almost unbearablt
by the men running into Fayston.
getting their whisky in bottles and
going out onto the roads until ii is alb
solutely unsafe for lady unprotect-
ed to go along the country roads.
"One of the larger and one of the
best towns in Vermont is Waterbury
II is always dry. Bolton, adjoining
Waterbury, this year went wet
There are eight trains day between
Waterbury and Bolton. | was on the
train the other evening when two men
from Waterbury had been imbibine
at Bolton. They got into fracns
at the station and when the train
stopped at Waterbury one man was
nearly dead having been knocked In
the head with whiskey bottle. the
blood was streaming all over him
The town of Waterbury had to take
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-18
PROHIBITION IN PORTLAND.
Saloons a Detriment to Business 10
calities Causing Decrease of Profit
able Customers.

George T. Springer of Portland, in dis
cussing the question of prohibition and
the vote on the repeal of the prohibitory
amendment, says;
II do not wish to see prohibition abol-
ished in Maine nor do l wish to see the
prohibitory amendment repealed and
taken out of the Constitution. l have
lived in the City of Portland very many
years under the prohibitory law and
from observances of the workings or
license laws in other communities and
the contrast of conditions in those places
with those in this City l believe that
prohibition is the best luethod of con-
trolling the liquor traffic While | am
strictly in favor of temperance, / Will
not say that prohibition entirely stops
the sale of liquor because we all know
that it does not but l do firmly believe
that the prohibitory law doves prohibit TO
"a great extent and that We're license laws
introduced in this State the amount of
Intoxicating liquor sold and consumed
and the amount of drunkenness would be
greatly increased. | do not think that
the sale of intoxicating liquors, which is
productive of nothing but evil results.
should be sanctioned by the State and
placed on a par with other universally
recognized legitimate. upright re-
spectacle business. Under prohibition
Portland is one of the nations cleanest
cities. is practically free from rowdyism
and it is always safe for ladies to go un-
accompanied about the streets of our
City and to visit its many summer re-
sorts and places of amusement without
fear of molestation which is not the case
in the communities where the liquor
traffic is licensed. There are those OPP
posed to prohibition who claim that a
license law would increase business and
the general prosperity of the city but do
not believe that this would be the case.
Il am firmly convinced that there is
less poverty in this City than in licensed
communities simply because not nearly
such a great proportion of their earnings
is squandered for liquor. Then | believe
that the placing of open licensed saloons
on some of the principal corner S of our
streets in the heart of our business sec
ton, which undoubtedly would happen If
license was gained, would be highly
detrimental to the transaction of other
lines of business in those sections rather
than source OF good and that the only
increase of business would be in the sale
of intoxicating liquors which would only
benen, the few who are engaged In the
degrading traffic and would be at the ex-
pense of the prosperity and happiness OF
the many Such conditions as these do
not appeal to me and | sincerely nope
| that the amendment will be retained ana
the law regarding the sale of liquor kept
as it is.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-18
Maine Gossip
Song of Peace.

The grass is green on Bunker Hill,
me waters sweet In Brandywine;
The sword sleeps in the seabbard STILL
- The farmer keeps his flock and vine;
Inen who would mar the scene today
with Vaunt of battlefield or fray?
fhe brave corn life in regiments
Zen thousand sabres in the sun;
me rlcks replace the battle tents,
- Inc hammered tassels toss and run,
Inc nelghing steed the bugles blast,
These be but stories of the past.
Lo! peace on earth! Loi flock and fold,
Lo! rich abundance, fat increase,
And valleys clad in sheen OF gold
oh, rise and sing a song OF peace!
For Theseas roams the land no more,
And Janus rests with fusted door.
joaquin Miller.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-18

| The following warning to Maine, by
Rev. j. II. Robbins, superintendent of
the N II. Anti Saloon League, answers
some of the false statements made by
| license advocates touching conditions
in New Hampshire and Vermont under
license and its publication is apprecia-
ted at this time:
| There are in Maine calling for re-
submisaion the same two classes that
we had in Vermont and New Hamp-
shire five years ago calling for license
laws.
! The men who want the liquor trafiic
| licensed for their own profit or can
venience mon who are interested in
the traffic as dealers or patrons. For
| that class we have no message. Inc
true temperance forces make no con-
eessions and enter into no alliances
with the liquor interests in town, city,
state or Nation. On the one hand il is
a fight TO give the beverage liquor
traffic legal standing, rights, perman-
ency and power on the other it is a
fight of all the moral forces of the
land. not simply to prevent the in
crease of the liquor power, but ii is
an aBSlfSSiAt Wal ldit u Dream int
entire legal standing Of the vicious
traffic. Strength and life of the bev-
erage liquor traffic. and all it stands
for. is in the license system.
The real liquor interests of the
country are clamoring for resubmis-
sion in Maine, hoping thereby to get
license. The National Wholesale liz
quor Dealers, Protective Bureau made
the boast that their organization cap
tured Vermont and New Hampshire
and they intend to capture Maine At
the annual meeting of this liquor asso-
citation in Atlantic City last month.
the publication committee reported
100000 spent in campaign literature
last year and an urgent call was is
sued for a much larger fund this year.
They hope to succeed i'll Maine.
The difference in conditions between
license and no license is very marked.
The great advantage of prohibition,
even locally, over license, justifies the
tremendous agitation with all its cost
in various ways to keep the legalized
saloon out. even though il gets into
the next town. tIt is an unjust bur
den and tax on the Christian people of
a town. Most drinking men do bet
ter with the saloon put away, even if
it is only a mile, than if it is next door
and has TO be passed every day to and
from work.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-18

care of two men that the town Of
Bolton set crazy.
From what I have seen of local
option in Vermont, i can say that it
is not as well enforced as the prohibit
tory law has been in Maine.
THE conditions under local option
in Vermont are not fiattering, to say
the least. Over three-quarters of the
state is under prohibition but the wet
towns make the conditions as bad az
If the whole state were wet
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-18

Wednesday is the day ON which the
Democratic State committee will de
eide whether or not to make Judge
Hurley permanent chairman.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-18

The Y. NJ. c. A. boys at Camp Dur
ren, Friendship, is to have a crew this
wear and tryouts win be held in a few
DAYS. Randolph Burgess, Brown,
1912, the swimming instructor has
charge of his material and will short
Nv rick his men, A second crew viii
probably be formed later and a new
chapter in water sports at DurreI viii
be started
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-18
9ieaptassness,

You can't sleep in the calmest and
stillest night. II your stomach Is weak
circulation poor. and digestion bad.
Hoods Sarsaparilla strengthens the
stomach, improves the circulating.
perfects digestion. and brings about
that condition in which sleep 10 regu-
lar and refreshing.
1t does not do this In day. but IL
does it--has done 1t in thousands OF
cases.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-18

AS Granger and candidate for
Master of the state Grange O badiah
Gardner was pronounced p rohibi-
ZIONIST. AS a DemoC rattle po litician
and a Democratic Office holder he is
an advocate of license.-Belfasit Re-
publican Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-18
Ballot Frauds.

Here is a pencil two inches long with
one-half an inch at the top fattened.
A liquor dealer in a Vermont license
town gave this to a ballot inspector,
instructing him how TO use il, telling
him there was twenty dollars for him
if by it's use he carried the town of
Winooski for license He said they
carried the town by the method last
year. The fiat end of the pencil is
held between the fingers, close to the
palm. with point downward, out Of
sight. IN counting ballots, all that is
necessary is to max mutilating
mark on a few no" ballots and they
are thrown out. This year the ballot
Inspector was a temperance man and
he simply played into the rum sellers
hand to get the secret He did not
get the twenty dollars and the liquor
dealer did not get the town. The same
thing is done BY d bit of lead under the
finger nail The Secretary of state
told me that it was impossible to
watch all their tricks Men in the
liquor interests are past masters in the
art Of political tfickerY and the cor
ruption of the ballot
The thoughtful people of Maine who
open their eyes To the events transpir-
ing in the neighboring states Of Yer
mont and New Hampshire cannot in
diligently and morally sanction a de-
mand which looks to the possibility of
repeating in the Pine Tree State" the
experiences of the Green Mountain"
and The Old Granite" States.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-18

Sprains require careful treatment
Keep quiet and apply Chamberlain
Liniment freely. II will remove the sore
ness and quickly restore the parts TO
healthy condition. For sale everywhere.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-18

Imprisoned under a heavy barn door
which had fallen upon her, Mrs. Fred
Warren of West Baldwin. a few days
ago, struggled an hour before she
could free herself Her calls for help
were unheard and it was only by des-
perate efforts that she escaped. No
bones We're broken, but Mrs Warren
was badly bruised
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-18
Drunka S.

II is a notorious fact that under the
license system Of Vermont and New
Hampshire a larger number OF young
men are becoming drinkers and drunk
ards than ever before. This is true not
in the license towns, but in the no-li-
cense towns as we'll Young men from
the dry towns visit the saloon towns.
great numbers Of them for the express
purpose Of getting liquor others in the
natural moving about Of men, The
liquor business is Haunted before their
eyes in gaudy and attractive signs.
Saloon windows are dressed up with
scientific, attractive skill The traffic
is as legal as any business. It assumes
a tone of responsibility Men whose
example has strong influence are pa
irons of the saloons The young mems
philosophy and reasoning are dedicated
largely BY surface appearances. There
is tremendous fascination about the
legaliZed saloon. ! have seen its eff
fects on boys and young men. | have
felt its tingle in the nerves. | can
not explain it in all it's awfulness. 1t
is the charm Of serpent Our young
men are caught in great numbers in
this fatal whirlpool of fascination.
This is not mere theory. 1t is the sad.
lawful fact ! have seen Instances
which have made my heart sick. For
the sake of the young manhood of the
Pine Tree State with wonderful, God
given possibilities. do not tamper with
such a danger! Repudiate and repeal
the bare possibility of giving a stand
ing.