Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1916 — Chicago Must Cowd New Year’s Revelry Into One Lone Hour. [ARTICLE]

Chicago Must Cowd New Year’s Revelry Into One Lone Hour.

Chicago, Nov. 13.—-Chicagoans who are accustomed to welcome the New Year with celebrations in cases and hotels, will have to crowd all their gaieties into just one hour this year. Mayor Thompson announced • today that the police would permit no tilting of the lid that has allowed the 1 o'clock qjosing law to be evaded in former years. The last day of the year coming on Sunday, cases selling liquor here will be closed until midnight undpr the state laws. At midnight they may open, but at 1 o'clock they will have to close to conform with the city ordinance.