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International Falls press and border budget (International Falls, Minn.) 1909-1926

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INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS THE CALIFORNIA EXPOSmONS liness and order and thrift. Petty are children of men who drink.} crime has almost vanished. Many of them have been ab&n-' THE WORLD'S WITH THE WARRING NATIONS Alcohol was a greater foe to doned by drunken parents. Most GREATEST CRIMINAL Russia than Germany and Austria. of them were born in environments Alcohol was killing nearly unfit for human habitation, ElCirpt From a Speech Delivered Greece is In the throes of a mighty one million men every year it* and the curse of liquor is upon crisis on the question of whether the GRAPHICALLY ILLUSTRATED BY WORD AND PICTURE by H. C. Evans, at Boone, nation will throw in her lot with the Russia. If she loses a million men them from the cradle to their Iowa. allies or remain neutral. King Constantino in the present war the loss will nature graves. heads the peace party and retiring be made good by one year of prohibition. History is a record of world Premier Venizelos is the backer Crime. of the opposition. Railroad Issues One of the Most Beautiful Pieces of Litera* tragedies. Nations have risen tcr Five hundred thousand, onehalf England and Germany have pbwer and grandeur, only to fall ture Ever Published Describing the Panama-Pacific million, men, women and The Anglo-French fleet is giving the N placed the ban on liquor during decay. The averasre life of. children are incarcerated in our. Ottoman forts guarding the Dardanelles and Panama-California Expositions the war. itian has been reduced from sevetfcl no respite. jails and penitentiaries everv If men must be sober to fight hundred to thirty-three year. Statistics show that 8^ per The Anglo-French fleet continues to well in times in war, they must This beautiful publication contains 64 pages splendidly ytars. For centuries the world's cent of all crime is due directly pour a galling fire upon the Turkish also be sober to work well in illustrated in many colors throughout. The pictures are philosophers, appalled, searched to alcohol. forts defending the Dardanelles, while times of peace. ill vain for the cause. Finally the Turks are rushing troops and big scenes along the route to the California cities and views of It costs one billion dollars a Loss in Efficiency. guns to the threatened points. science took up the question and the exposition grounds, with year to care for our criminals, The drinker's productive efficiency discovered that the chief cause paupers and insane: it costs another many maps in relief of our Secretary of State Bryan declines to 50 75 is lowered from to of the downfall and death of men confirm the report that the United billion to maintain our country, Northwest cities and per cent. The regular drinker is and nations is alcohol. Alcohol States' note of inquiry to the allies, 85 criminal courts and per cfent birds eye views of both Exposition worth, at any labor, less than half regarding the ship embargo against is the greatest criminal of the of everv dollar thus spent is necessary what the sober man is worth. Germany, has been forwarded. Grounds. Just the sort ages, and the use of alcohol is because liquor is sold and It is estimated that the use of of a publication that will be the greatest tragedy of the ages. drunk. TWO KNOWN VICTIMS OF FIRE liquor is causing a loss of nearly useful to the visitor. Mr. The Dead. Poverty. Vl" 25 per cent in our nation's productiveness. A. M. Cleland, General Passenger Four hundred and forty deaths Two-thirlds of the extreme We produce thirtytwo out Agent, St. Paul advisei of every 1,000 are due to alcohol. poverty is caused by drink. "We billion dollars annually. The BODY FOUND IN MINNEAPOLIS be glad to mail a copy he will have so far dealt only with the Toss due to lowered efficiency is HOTEL RUINS. Alcohol kills 750,000 people in to anyone asking for it, or to effect on the drinker. Time forbids over eight billion dollars. the United Sattes every year— but a reference to the countless your friends if you will supply Loss by Death. Edward Perry Dies at City Hospital—• dvef 2,000 daily. tragedies of the home of the The loss in dollars and cents him their names and addressee Joseph Dubeau Reported The Army War College at drinker— broken-hearted fathers caused by the early death of the Missing is Located. Washington has made a compilation and mothers, wives from whose 750,000 who die annually from of the total number of men hearts all hope has gone, destitute Minneapolis, March 9.—The known the effects of alcohol cannot be killed in war from the present toll of the fire in the Hennepin block children, robbed of opportunity to estimated. If their natural terms was placed at two when Edward Perry time back to oo years before grow to full stature of manhood of life had not been cut short died at the City hospital and the Christ The list includes the dead and womanhood. These are costs from one to 29 years, if each of charred body of Simon Melick, the *iid wounded in the wars of charged to alcohol that cannot "OUR HIGH SCHOOL exclusively the No. 10 Turk, was recovered by firemen. Joseph them had continued to produce Alexander the Great, the wars of Dubeau, who was reported missing, be estimated in dollars and cents. during that time, what untold the was located at the Columbia hotel, Caesars, the Crusaders, the Remington Standard Typewriter." wealth would have been added. The Saloon. 109 Nicollet avenue, where he went Mohammedan wars, the Napoleonic Let us estimate that the loss is During 1910, on an average, after the fire. Firemen will continue wars, oar Civil War—in $600 a year for each of these to search for the body of the Greek, each saloon in the United States fict, the record includes all war whose name was unknown, and who is decedents. That means an annual was the cause of the death of casualties from the present time thought to have perished. loss of a half million. three men. Every saloon in the When the body of the Turk was lowered ilttost back to the days of Joshit*. Loss In Dollars. United States has 20 drunkards, from the third floor window, the The people of the United States story of the faithful vigil of Melick's mortallv wounded, phvsicallv and The total is 700,000 killed and cousin and fellow roomer, Constantine spent two billion dollars last year mortally, charged to its credit. Q(iXIX)S)(D(IX£(lXD€J ij000,000 wounded. Eyoo, became known. After the for drink, and we paid a like Each saloon creates the liauor morning .of the fatal fire, Eyoo remained At the present time alcohol is amount in taxes to support the appetite in 100 men everv year. almost constantly at the scene killing 3,500,00 men, women and paupers and feeble minded caused of the b)a*e. Unable to speak English, There are two parties necessary children every year! by drink. To sum up: he did not make known hie reason to the operation of saloons Five for times as many every year Jtaying the?e. The searcheri Annual loss, spent in any town in Iowa. First, the have kept hina tram the Interior. ft! been killed in all the wars for liquor $2,000,000,000 Friend Describee Disaster. saloon-maker second, the saloon-keeper. Of the world in 2,500 years! Annual loss, in caring When Chief Ringer and other firemen The saloon-keeper The Wounded. for liquor's carried the boidy eut of the wi» is the fellow who owns the dow onto ladder they heard Eyoo Insurance statistics show that victims 2,000,000,000 drunkard shop, who stands behind shout. None there coukl understand th« average life of a man at 20, Annual loss by reason the bar and deals out the him, but l*ter, whetr Coroner Seashore if he is a total abstainer, and if he of killed 500,060,000 arrived, Jt wait fou^d the Turk could liquid damnation. The saloonmaker tamains a total abstainer, is 64 Annual loss by reason converse brokenly in Swedish. Through is every man who signed this medium By00 told Dr. seashore yWr. If he is a moderate drinkIfjhe of lessened efficiency a saloon petition. Without his how he and Mellckhad been In thel* will live but 35 years. ......... 8,000,000,000 affirmative, overt act in signing TQQfn on ths four$ floor of the Astoria By the excessive use of alcohol when-they were awakened by the his name, saloons would ndt exist. Man loses 29 years out of his Total annual loss flames. Melick was partially over He created the saloons, and life. come and Eyoo tried to cany the halfconscious charged to liquor he must take all the responsibility. man to safety. The stair There are more than 1,000,000 .$12,500,000,000 You point the finger of shame way« had been burned and the only iOftfirmed drunkards in the Unittd This is nearly one-half as much avenue of escape was through a window and scorn at the saloon-keepers States. of them die 300,000 as we produce annually. to a ladder. Seeing no hope for We are the anthoriaed of Boone. They are ostracised year. There *$re both to get out, Eyoo deserted his 4,000,000 Over against this enormous sum from society—yet you respect cousin and rushed to the window. He dealer in itipfdiei of tho htavy drinkers and 20,000,000 is placed the total income in license and honor your saloon-makers. loat all his money and was given tittoderate drinkers. to the Government and our Complete Remingtoli clothes at Oreek club on Marquette JSiany of them are vour most A soldier wounded in battle cities of $134,000,000. avenue. respectable citizens. The saloonmakers consutiiig ofrihfcw,ea» lifho loses ten years of his life by If a foreign invader landed on of Boone are more reprehensible Bernhardt Doing Well. Reason of his wound, would be our shores and forced a tribute paper, and typiwiiUf bon than the saloon-keeprs, Bordeaux, via Paris. March 9.—A Classed as seriously wounded. from our people of a single dollar, bulletin Issued by Doctor Denuce, whs and if, as they walk through your The paper, and all typewriter 5,000,000 confirmed drunkitdi the nation would be in arms. Is ln attendance upon Minis. Sarah streets, the finger of scorn was and heavy drinkers are Bernhardt, whose right leg was amputated Yet here is a foe that is taxing acceMories. pointed at them, there would not rfcently, says that the condl HHortally wounded and the 20,&00,000 up far more than we make on be so many of them. tlon of Mae. Bwahardt continues tt temperate drinkers are our farms, and doing it with the be satisfactory. The crime of making a saloon ItHously wounded, making 25,000 consent and aid Of a majority of is worse than the crime of burglary. Americans, one-fourth of our people. Mark Twain's FHerid Dies. 9.—Captain The man who commits St. Louis, March Aaroa iMifr population, whose health is Loss inCharacter. V. Hall, for more than hflf a century burglary damns only his own impaired. If the cost in -ability to work, in charjpe of steamboats on the Mississippi soul, while the man who commits These Americans, living today, to produce, is 25 per cent of the river and an intimate friend of We fnrnitk typewriter the crime of making a soloon founded by alcohol, are ten total efficiency of all labor, what Mark Twain's, died here, aged N damns not only his own soul but JOS**' ttines greater in numbers than all ribbons in sinfle or two do you imagine is the, cost in the the souls of many others. the men wounded by war since loss of individual and national GRAIN AND LIVE STOCK. colors of standard or spa* the dawn of history. I appeal to you men of Boone, character? In our efforts as a cial combinations for aB Patriotism. to catch the spirit of the age, nation to climb the ladder of civilization, •laaeaeMM ona. MImmsoUi, March' •.—Wheat—L if which makes for better living and some great military power alcohol acts as a drag, T. 1.40% July, fl.il No. 1 northern, makes of typewriters «v (1.46 Ho. I nerthem,314l% No. better lives. Men of other communities, Were to declare war on America as a millstone, that impedes our I durum, $1.47 Ne. Sjeora, 69||e Mol adding mschines. today* practically every citizen all over the nation are whit* oats, 14 progress. In many of our cities 91 Ho. 1 rye, li.ify To. ft.**' IfOUld fly to the defense of his banishing the saloon. Every Dent! Ontai. the degenerate, corrupt whisky Duluth, March -Wheat—Mar, tOttntry. work day for the past seven years If armies of soldiers voters hold the balance of power, |l.4»U iulr7Tl.4t%. Were to invade our country with 30 saloons have been put out of and in some cases an actual PmI Iratk St. I4ve South St. Paul, March ».Steers, the purpose of killing and woundtog, business. For the first time in majority. Alcohol has blighted «, f«.0067.tt cowi, |4.TS#|.ifi f€.0007.95 cowi, calves, s, I4.500l.ri, hoes, With the intention of laying liberty and robbed our people of the history of our Government sheep and laanba, Waste our homes, every American Congress has voted on the annihilation their virtues in many cities. OkiMM Um Steak. patriot would rally for defense. ChildlreiL of the traffic. It is now a Chicago, March 9.—Ho g*—Receipt^ slow: So above Saturday's averaye 26,000 Vet here is an enemy at our Of children born to alcoholic national issue, and henceforth balk. 9s.90O9.9S light, fr.70£7.60| 16.7007.00 heavy. 96.4667.00 *ery mixed, doors, greater than the armed parents, one out of every five is every man who runs for Congress rough, 91.400C.II pigs, 16.75@6.75. forces Cattle—Reeelpta. lt,90 firm native of all nations, daily lcillitigf must declare his position on the insane one out of every three is 9B-iSOI.lt western, 95.10O7.t0 steers, and wounding, decorating our and heifers, 93.5007.71 calves, mentally impaired eighty-five matter. The highest type of manhood cows 96.50010. homes, degrading our manhood, per cent of them are degenerates. and womanhood is found in Sheep—Recelpta, 15,000 weak sheep, S7.00 07.90 yearlings. 97.9*09.7»i lambfl debauching our womanhood, rendering The chances of death in infancy the country and small cities of 97.60O0.05- our children destitute, filllug1 of the children of alcoholic parents the United States. It is here that Butter, B(|i and PoaHrf. 0.—Butter, iwanery our 'Minneapolis. March jails and penitentiaries— are 400 per cent greater than peace and quiet reign and the 2|e firsts extras, 27%c extra firsts, ind yet comfort extra Srets, we aid and give 26c seconds, 24c: dairies, other children. Golden Rule is the law of action. X4c packing stock, 17%c. Id this enemy. E«rs—Fresh new oasea Here you have the best home life, prime flrats, A man may take chances with surreal dirties and checks out, 19^c And today, here in this beautiful the highest ideals. I appeal to 95.55 checks receipts, rots out, case, himself, but if he has a spark of and lie dirties, dos., seconds, doz., 17a little American city of Boone. you men of Boone, you who have manhood he will take care how 10 lha. Live Poultry—Turkeys, fat, and small, 0e crip* Winy men who would defend our over 14c thin and he tampers with poison^ that will the power, I appeal to you in the roosters, M| plies and culls, unsalable country against a foreign foe. eoek* 1914 itagay cockerels, 12c 1914 cause helpless children that he erels, 14c hens, 4 lbs i?am$ of the Lord, for the sake medium weight, consenting that this domestic if 6 and 3 4 lbs, llOlSel over. 14c hens, to brings into the world to be deformed hens, I lbs. and under, 9e geeae, fat? of your homes, fqr the protection r3 foe shall be licensed to kill and 10c: ducks, 13c guineas, dei and idiotic. He will hesitate springs, lb., lt%c. destroy. of ypur boys and girls, and in the before he puts a hobble on interests of common decency, to Russia. his unborn child. He will, if he Suffragists at Indianapolis. Three 'months the liquor ago stand between the saloon, the be not indeed a brute, do all in Indianapolis, Ind., March traffic was banished forever from Mississippi valley conference of suft his power to protect, not only his criminal of all ages, and the boys Your orders w31 recehre oor prompt and carefnl fradfts have opened three days' se» ftttllft. ^Already the peasants own children, but the Children of of Boone. Shout "hands off" to attention at dl times. Every article •ion hare. Delegates from 21 statei look like 7a different race. The his neighbors, against this universal attended the oj^njj fusion. Mm* the spoiler and ?tand in all your with it the positive Retmngton marksi ol sin and suffering and enemy of man. Rosteka Schwlmmer, Hungarian worn, vigorous manhood for decency, joverty- have gone from their an journalist whots touring tJie United There are 5,000,000 children of TBE PRESS STAnWERT STORE faees^ Even with the war in for your town, your state, and all States endeatortsig to enlist women's school age in the United States to a world movement progress, destitution and degredition who never see the inside of a, that you hold dear.—Yeoman oonfersace have given way to clean­ schoolroom, and most of them Shield. 4