Bill Posters Shock Bridgewater, Pa., Citizens

Council of Borough to Attend to the Matter.

The poster of a young lady thinly draped that is being used by a manufacturing firm to illustrate their product on the billboards of the county evidently met with the hearty disapproval of some of the more moral of the West Bridgewater, Pa., (Beaver Co.) residents and they have defaced the bills.

In different parts of the borough the glaring semi-nude poster was displayed on large billboards and wherever found they have been so defaced that only the head of the young lady remains to tell the nature of the advertisement.

The poster is a remarkable specimen of the printers art and bears all the good points of the craft, but it has evidently shocked the person responsible for its disappearance.

The poster is but one of the many evils that arise when a borough permits large sign boards to be erected within its boundaries and has no ordinance to stipulate the nature of the posters that shall be placed on it. The borough of Rochester recently adopted an ordinance prohibiting the posting of immoral or semi-nude pictures and the passing of handbills, samples of medicine, etc., and it is thought that the same matter will be given consideration at the next meeting of the West Bridgewater council.

--Warren Evening Mirror, Warren, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1909, page 1.