Word: local
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...plans not involving the elimination of private profits have failed to diminish waterially the evils of the liquor traffic. - (a) State prohibition does not prohibit: W. B. Weeden, Working of Prohibition, 56-93; Boston Herald, Jan. 24, '95. - (b) Prohibition by local option merely changes the place of sale. - (1) It does not effectively do away with the evils of liquor consumption. - (c) High license has also failed to diminish the evils: W. J. McFarland, Facts, not Opinions, 15-17. - (1) It simply makes a few dealers more greedy for large sales: E. L. Fanshawe, as above...
...meeting of the Prohibition Club held last evening, the matter of holding a local contest to choose a representative for the State contest, which will be held May 9, was considered and referred to the executive committee. It was also decided to accept the challenge of the Yale Prohibition Club to an oratorical contest at Hartford...
Bishop, History of the Suffrage in the Colonies; J. J. Lalor's Cyclopaedia III, 811, 824-829; Howard, Local Constitutional History, I, 62; A. B. Hart, Practical Essays, No. 2; H. C. Lodge, English Colonies in North America, 231, 283, 345, 361, 385-390; Woolsey, Political Science, I, 299-303, II, 111-113; Wharton's Commentaries, S S 396, 592; T. M. Cooley, Constitutional Limitations, 752-756; Story's Commentaries, S S 577-586; F. J. Stimson's American Statute Law. S S 20-23, 240-249; Bateman, Political and Constitutional Law, S S 96-100, 163; Pomeroy, Constitutional...
...lacrosse management has received challenges from the teams of Cornell, Lehigh, and Johns Hopkins, and from several local teams; but none of these will be answered until it is known whether the team will be a success. The candidates who take the regular practice now number twenty-five; a lacrosse team consists of twelve...
...papers, too, have been quick to see their chance and have in most cases furnished highly seasoned accounts of outrages committed by local toughs who parade the streets the night of a big game wearing college colors. For the past two years we have been given a chance to read long accounts of the ingenious schemes by which proprietors of metropolitan theatres and music halls have proposed to "protect" themselves from college boys. And this year, as a grand climax, the fact has been telegraphed all over the country that the last great game this year was played under...