"The crowd that customarily greets the numbers of the Normal Lecture Course was on hand last Monday evening to listen to Mrs. Laura Dainty's readings. Her appearance did not predispose the audience in her favor, but before her first selection was finished she had their sympathy, and held it till the close of the entertainment. She has a good voice, well trained, and is perfectly at home before an audience, but her work as a whole does not compare favorably with Mr. Burbank's."
"The dry goods stock of the late Joseph Kitchen was sold at auction by C. L. Yost this week. Mrs. H. D. Martin will move into the Kitchen store Mar. 15."*
"It must be evident to all candid minds that our people are not prepared to vote on the water works question, until they had more definite information as to a source of supply and the probable cost. What then justified the action of the Council in refusing to hire an expert to investigate the matter?"
"Opera House for March:
Manager Curtis announces that the dates for March at the Opera House have been filled as follows:
Mar 10: Wrestling match between Jake Martin of Ypsilanti and T. J. Murphy of Minneapolis.
Mar. 11: Walter Thomas Mills on the prohibition amendment under auspices of W. C. T. U.**
Mar. 15: M. E. Hawks, lecture on the prohibition amendment under auspices of W. C. T. U.
Mar. 17: St. Patrick's Day--the great play 'Devil's Auction or the Golden Branch,' under the personal management of Chas. H. Yale.
Mar. 20: Col. Geo. W. Bain, of Ky., lecture under the auspices of the W. C. T. U. on the prohibition amendment.
Mar. 21: Mendelshon [sic] Quintet Club of Boston, the last in the series of Normal Lecture and Music Course entertainments.
Mar. 23: Sylvester Larned on the prohibition amendment under the auspices of the city committee.
Mar. 24: Young Men's Prohibitory Amendment Club mass meeting--the addresses to be by young men.
Mar. 26: Afternoon and evening, Prof. Morris' celebrated trained dogs.
Mar. 31: Hon. John B. Finch under the auspices of the W. C. T. U., a lecture on [take a wild guess --ed.] the prohibition amendment.
--Ypsilanti Commercial, March 4, 1887
*She opened a millinery store.
**Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Showing posts with label prohibition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prohibition. Show all posts
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Prohibition Frenzy; Strange-Looking Elocutionist; Water Works Uncertainty: Tidbits from the March 4, 1887 Ypsilanti Commercial
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Two New Stories for Ya
Would you like to read about an Ypsilanti teen who in 1885 predicted the Internet? It's over here on YpsiNews.com.
Today I also have for you a story about a Prohibition-era raid, in today's Ypsilanti Courier right here. I hope your enjoy them both!
Monday, May 11, 2009
1800s ASCII Art
Dusty Diary LOVES reader requests! Happily, I found one today in email!
(You can email queries to dustydiary at gmail, OR you can write them in the "Skribit" doodad down in the sidebar. I have added this one to Skribit just so you can see what it looks like).
The query:
According to info at hand, Prohibition ended in Michigan at 6:00 pm on today's date, in 1933. Any Ypsilanti accounts of drunken and disorderly behavior that you've come across? Enquiring minds want to know!
Oh, dear reader, you should see the thickness of my "Booze" folder! I also have one for Prohibition, and many of the file stories about U-M students concern drunken behavior. Let's find some aperitifs in celebration of Prohibition's end:
[inevitable sidetrack rambling] Of course, Prohibition movements and laws in Michigan were alive and well long before 1919. Highlights:
1790: Law passed that no one residing in or passing through the Northwest Territory give liquor to any Native American
1790: Law passed that no one may sell liquor to soldiers in the Northwest Territory within ten miles of a military post
1795: Law passed preventing saloonkeepers from selling liquor to minors, servants, or slaves
1800: In order to get a liquor license, a potential tavern-keeper must be recommended by "twelve respectable freeholders"
1812: Law passed that anyone selling/giving liquor to Native Americans be fined not less than $5 or more than $100
1815: Law passed that intoxicating drinks may not be sold to soldiers without written permission of officer in command
1815: Law passed that liquor may not be sold on Sundays, "except to lodgers and travelers" (day trip to Ann Arbor?)
1845: Law passed that residents of townships and cities could vote on whether to allow liquor in their municipality: this was called "local control."
[sidetrack to ongoing sidetrack rambling] If this post were a martini, here's the delicious juicy olive: In 1888 there was a vote for local control. Many Michigan counties voted. So how did the editor of the April 12, 1888 Ypsilantian decide to depict the results? He sure couldn't whip something up on Photoshop.
Well, sir, he typeset, by hand, a map of Michigan, showing the "dry" counties with dotted lines, the "wet" counties with swirly brackets, and the non-voting counties left blank.
(Click for larger view)
This is the single most jaw-dropping tour de force of typesetting that Dusty Diary has ever seen in any old Ypsi paper. "We found this part troublesome enough to set," says a little story under the map, "and if any printer thinks it a simple job, he may try it for two or three days." Egads! No thanks!
[sidetrack to sidetrack to sidetrack rambling] This Ypsi graphic is also older by a decade than the first preserved work of typewriter art, which was a butterfly (pictured at right)
done entirely on a typewriter by one Flora Stacey in 1898. She used hyphens, slashies, brackets, periods, some o's, and a single judicious asterisk.
Dusty Diary realizes she has not, in fact, answered the kind reader's very reasonable question, at all. But...er,...slashies butterfly with asterisk! Typeset map! Quirky timeline!
Ah, phooey. Keep those reader questions coming!
Ypsilanti: Kickin' the ASCII art old-school--REALLY OLD-SCHOOL--since 1888!
(You can email queries to dustydiary at gmail, OR you can write them in the "Skribit" doodad down in the sidebar. I have added this one to Skribit just so you can see what it looks like).
The query:
According to info at hand, Prohibition ended in Michigan at 6:00 pm on today's date, in 1933. Any Ypsilanti accounts of drunken and disorderly behavior that you've come across? Enquiring minds want to know!
Oh, dear reader, you should see the thickness of my "Booze" folder! I also have one for Prohibition, and many of the file stories about U-M students concern drunken behavior. Let's find some aperitifs in celebration of Prohibition's end:
[inevitable sidetrack rambling] Of course, Prohibition movements and laws in Michigan were alive and well long before 1919. Highlights:
1790: Law passed that no one residing in or passing through the Northwest Territory give liquor to any Native American
1790: Law passed that no one may sell liquor to soldiers in the Northwest Territory within ten miles of a military post
1795: Law passed preventing saloonkeepers from selling liquor to minors, servants, or slaves
1800: In order to get a liquor license, a potential tavern-keeper must be recommended by "twelve respectable freeholders"
1812: Law passed that anyone selling/giving liquor to Native Americans be fined not less than $5 or more than $100
1815: Law passed that intoxicating drinks may not be sold to soldiers without written permission of officer in command
1815: Law passed that liquor may not be sold on Sundays, "except to lodgers and travelers" (day trip to Ann Arbor?)
1845: Law passed that residents of townships and cities could vote on whether to allow liquor in their municipality: this was called "local control."
[sidetrack to ongoing sidetrack rambling] If this post were a martini, here's the delicious juicy olive: In 1888 there was a vote for local control. Many Michigan counties voted. So how did the editor of the April 12, 1888 Ypsilantian decide to depict the results? He sure couldn't whip something up on Photoshop.
Well, sir, he typeset, by hand, a map of Michigan, showing the "dry" counties with dotted lines, the "wet" counties with swirly brackets, and the non-voting counties left blank.(Click for larger view)
This is the single most jaw-dropping tour de force of typesetting that Dusty Diary has ever seen in any old Ypsi paper. "We found this part troublesome enough to set," says a little story under the map, "and if any printer thinks it a simple job, he may try it for two or three days." Egads! No thanks!
[sidetrack to sidetrack to sidetrack rambling] This Ypsi graphic is also older by a decade than the first preserved work of typewriter art, which was a butterfly (pictured at right)
done entirely on a typewriter by one Flora Stacey in 1898. She used hyphens, slashies, brackets, periods, some o's, and a single judicious asterisk.Dusty Diary realizes she has not, in fact, answered the kind reader's very reasonable question, at all. But...er,...slashies butterfly with asterisk! Typeset map! Quirky timeline!
Ah, phooey. Keep those reader questions coming!
Ypsilanti: Kickin' the ASCII art old-school--REALLY OLD-SCHOOL--since 1888!
