Contains four short scenes: Freedom in 1776; Freedom during the time of the Civil War; Freedom at the time of the World War; Freedom in 1929.
In session at Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1932
by Oscar H. Rogers.
Poetry. Caption title. At head of title on page 1: No. 65. At end of text on page 4, within rules: American Tract Society, 28 Cornhill, Boston. The American Tract Society published at 28 Cornhill, Boston, from 1841 to 1868. First line: In a street of a great city, leading toward the railway station.
By John Collins. Poetry. Printed in three columns divided by single lines within border of type ornaments. In center column engravings of drunken man and of woman and child. Publication date must be after Hood's Song of the shirt, which it imitates; journal was known as Phrenological journal starting in 1863. At head of title: From S. R. Wells' Phrenological Journal, New York. First line: With eyelids tearful and red. Originally published: Phrenological journal and life illustrated.
Poetry and prose. Printed in two columns divided by double lines within border of flowers. Quotation between double rules below title: O! that men should put an eenmy [i.e. enemy] into their mouths to steal away their brains. At head of text: All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, or alienate so much property as Drunkennes [i.e. Drunkenness]. In lower margin below border: Dash, Printer, Kettering. Suggested date from internal evidence.
Printed in one and two columns divided by single line. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Within triple line border. First line: Ho! Ye that throng so madly.
Poet claims to support temperance but not vote for Prohibition Poet claims to support temperance but not vote for Prohibition Poem in seven four-line stanzas. At end of text: New Republic. Range of publication dates suggested because a temperance newspaper, the New Republic of Westerville, Ohio, was published between 1913 and 1916, with editions for several states including Massachusetts.
Paper read at the Fourteenth International Congress Against Alcoholism, Milan, Italy, Friday, September 26, 1913.
Within triple line border with ornamental corners. At left: photo of woman and two children in kitchen; at right, photo of same family with husband in parlor.
Devils hold a meeting in a Boston distillery Devils hold a meeting in a Boston distillery Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. At end of text: The 'Rialto', 'Apollo', and 'Shakespeare' are drinking saloons in the vicinity of the National Theatre, and near one of the largest distilleries in Boston. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
Page [4] blank. At head of text: Spoken before the Reform Club, Providence, R.I.
Includes a poem.
Duett for tenor and bass
Within border of type ornaments. Date information from dealer. Attacks waste of national wealth on beer. First line: Last year we made in this country over nine millions of barrels.
Composed by John Costin Eames--North Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line within border of type ornaments. Autobiographical poem in 20 four-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from internal evidence; Eames states he stopped drinking in 1829.
