Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton. Many of the college men are taking an active part in it, and if prohibition is carried it will be in a great part due to the efforts of the college and seminary. Rev. Dr. Cuyler, of New York, delivered a lecture here last evening on "The Liquor Question and Drinking Usages," which has aroused great enthusiasm among the advocates of prohibition and will undoubtedly have a great influence on the election a week from...
...Boston city election yesterday, Mayor O'Brien was re-elected over Mr. Hart by about 1700 plurality. The vote on the liquor question resulted in favor of license by over 5,000 majority...
...enjoyed perhaps will remain a mystery forever; for it is hard to conceive of any cause which could logically bring about a result so pernicious. We shall think little of that in the future when the type of man who received distinction here for his ability to "judge good liquor and smoke twenty-five cent cigars" has become as much of a curiosity as he was once an object of envy. And we can rejoice that the day is not far distant when those who comprise this variety of the human species will be viewed as accidental mistakes of nature...
...books of Cambridge apothecaries holding sixth-class licenses, containing the public record of their sales of liquor, are being carefully examined by the authorities, with a view to ascertaining whether the conditions of the law have been violated. A number of prosecutions for violations of the law are likely to follow.- Cambridge Tribune...
...Cambridge Chronicle is making an effective crusade against the liquor dealers of Cambridge who do not live up to the new prohibition...