Word: high
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This afternoon the freshman baseball nine will play the Brookline High School on Soldiers Field at 3.30. The two teams will play as follows...
...aliens, (2) criminals, (3) violators of its provisions.- (b) It renders useless the formation of liquor rings to control the excise board.- (c) It makes those engaged in the traffic independent of parties or rings so long as they comply with the law.- (d) It takes the question of high or low license out of municipal politics by fixing the amount...
...largely reducing the excessive number of saloons and other drinking places: Evening Post, March 31, '96.- (a) It will reduce saloons in the large cities 30 to 50 per cent.- (b) It will eliminate nearly all the objectionable small saloons and dives.- (1) They cannot afford to pay the high tax.- (c) It will reduce the number of other drinking places.- (1) Hotels and restaurants selling liquor pay the same tax as saloons.- (d) It provides for local option in towns, but not in cities...
...Leading features are based on fallacies.- (a) It provides for high license.- (1) High license will not increase cost of drinks.- (2) It only drives out small dealers and concentrates trade with larger ones.- (b) It grants local option to country towns, but not to New York City, Albany, etc.- (1) Small towns will reap the benefit of a part of the total...
...high jump, Ellery H. Clark '96, of the Boston team, won the final competition with 1 metre 81 centimetres to his credit. Robert Garrett, captain of the Princeton team, and James B. Connolly, of the Suffolk A. C. of Boston, tied for second place...