Over-the-Rhine by Michael Morgan

Author:Michael Morgan
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781614231981
Publisher: The History Press

Welsh’s Café, at the corner of Main and Liberty, would have been an example of a saloon located on a corner to better spot unfriendly Sunday police enforcement, as well as a place likely to have been vulnerable to enforcement of Sunday laws against “billiard rooms… patronized by disorderly or disreputable characters.” From the collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.

In addition to selling alcohol on Sundays, state law in 1831 also prohibited “sporting, rioting, quarreling, hunting, fishing, shooting, or [working] at common labor.” Violations were punishable by a five-dollar fine. By the later nineteenth century, the wink-and-a-nod reality of the enforcement of Sunday laws was making itself apparent in the laws themselves. The ban on Sunday labor had carved out a number of exceptions that were not in the original statute. The labor prohibition began to exempt “those who conscientiously observe the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath.” State law also added provisions that seemed redundant to both the Sunday ban on alcohol sales and the ban on Sunday labor. Anyone who

participates in or exhibits to the public with or without charge…any theatrical or dramatic performance of any kind…or any base-ball playing, or any ten-pins or other games of similar kind or kinds, or participates in keeping any low or disorderly house of resort, or shall sell, dispose of, or give away any ale, beer, porter or spirituous liquors in any building appendant and adjacent thereto, where any such show, performance is given…shall… be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or be confined in the county jail not exceeding six months.

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