Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...work of the Law and Order League in Cambridge. He dwelt on the need of unity in all reforms and of united forces against common enemies. The need was felt in Cambridge, and finally a league was formed, merely for the enforcement of the laws relating to the liquor traffic. This league included men who were prohibitionists, licencists, extremists, moderatists, Democats and Republicans. The liquor laws forbid sales of liquor to minors, on Sundays, on election day, to drunkards or men who have been seen drunk within six months, within four hundred feet of a schoolhouse. They forbid also...
...large portion of southern Russia is inundated, and railway traffic is temporarily suspended...
...heavy snow-storm prevailed in the Northwest yesterday, greatly impeding railway traffic in all directions...
...between the Northwestern railroads was brought to a close yesterday, and telegraph orders have been sent to restore today the old rates for freight and passenger traffic...
Telegrams to the London Times from various parts of the United Kingdom report a snow storm of unusual severity. Traffic on the railways in many districts has been almost, if not altogether, suspended. Many wrecks around the coast are reported...