The City of Lemars, la., has shown its faith iu the bichloride treatment for drunkenness by including it with the penalties for public drunkenness. Any person convicted the second time of drunkenness on the public streets is to be given his choice between working on the street for ten days with a ball and chain and a course of treatment with the Keeley cure. The ordinance has already gone into effect, aurl there has been one case under it, the accused selecting the cure in place._oJL_Jthe_ball.-and chain and the compulsory improvement of the Lemars highways., Visitor: " How does, the land lie out this way?" Native: "It ain't the lajnd that lies, sir; it's the land agents,"
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Evening Star, Issue 9161, 16 June 1893, Page 2
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116Untitled Evening Star, Issue 9161, 16 June 1893, Page 2
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