'Shame, Oh Shame': 1872 Spring City Op-ed Bemoans Tobacco

SPRING CITY, PA -- Shame, oh shame, where art thou?

Shakespearean play, or lament of a 19th century Chester County journalist?

If you guessed the latter, you’d be right.

Those were the words written by a corespondent in Spring City on May 11, 1872.

The below op-ed from the Spring City Correspondence Ledger was published on Wednesday by the Spring-Ford Area Historical Society.

Image of the Spring City railroad station in 1870 courtesy the Spring-Ford Historical Society.