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From: Randi Richardson <>
Subject: Bloomington Memories
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 10:42:32 -0500


Bloomington Telephone, April 21, 1883, p. 1.

The good people of Gosport have become conscience stricken and have "Arose
as one man" to condemn the skating rink as the following correspondence in
the Spencer DEMOCRAT would indicate.

"We are glad to know that a crusade is being formed in one of the central
Hoosier towns against the immoral and disgraceful rink. The rink, as it is
conducted in these modern days, is pronouned by cultured people as being
highly immodest, vulgar and demoralizing, and that the time has come when,
for the good of society, it should be abolished. We fully agree with the
crusaders, and believe that the sooner parents forbid their daughters, and
husbands their wives to participate in this voluptuous and giddy
foolishness the better it will be for domestic happiness. The rink, as it
is conducted at the present day, affords an oportunty for fair partners to
be unceremoniously hugged by men (especially the Bloomington kids) who are
wholly unknown to them. We trust that the crusade thus already begun will
continue with unabated zeal, and that the clergy and all good people will
join in the common cry of 'Down with the rink,' until it will be numbered
as a vice forbidden by the laws of good society."

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