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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12473, 25 February 1909, Page 4

A wealthy manufacturer and representative' in Congress who lives in Tankers (the first city up the Hudson above New York), and lias heretofore ( >pen in the habit of distributing a thousand Christmas - dinners to- needy :amilios. stopped the benefaction this season because some of llis_ political opponents " -published cartoons (< _of working 'inert, saying to him: We don't:-. want Christmas .dinners; we want work." - - In only one place in North America, Jbis believed, are there women bar-:-.->nders. This is in" St. John's Newfoundland, and they have peculiar vpmperanco methods there, too. Over every saloon bar there is posted a list of all persons arrested for drunkenness. -No 'one is allowed to sell any ouch person a drink for a period of two weeks, under penalty -0f.." a heavy J.ne. -.. . : ..-. "■ '.-