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Chicago’s Saloons

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 2, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 34.

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Chicago’s Saloons

CHICAGO has 3,700 saloons, and each of its 600,000 people pays an average of $30 to keep their proprietors from starving. This same city squanders $30,000,000 a year to corrupt and debase and turn men into fiends, and scarcely $3,000,000 for regenerating them.—Sel.