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Jakob Jensen was a strong opponent of public intoxication and workers spending their salaries in the nightlife instead of their families. He advocated for limiting permits and opening hours of bars and would famously show up in bars to personally stop people from drinking, if necessary with physical
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In the 1880s he became involved in the Social
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