End of Prohibition Fight Surprises Nation
The nation awoke to the swift ratification of the Sheppard amendment, making alcohol manufacture sale and transport illegal nationwide. Leaders credit wartime urgency and congressional action for the rapid move after decades of effort, with states approving by early 1919 and the amendment becoming the eighteenth after swift passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prohibition Movement
Congress
United States
Champ Clark
House of Representatives
Union
Morris Sheppard
Texas
Speec
Cif Wedsby
House of Natives
Nebraska
Prohibition Party’s fifty year battle and women’s role
A historical overview recounts the Prohibition party’s 50 year rise from its 1869 Chicago founding to political campaigns from 1872 to 1916. It highlights key figures John Russell and James Black, women leaders Frances Willard and the WCTU, and the party’s voter totals, along with the spread of temperance activism across states and nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Prohibition Party
Anti-Saloon League
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Antiliquor
Farwell Hall
Chicago
Good Templars
Society of
Total Abstainers
Pennsylvania
Grand Judge of the Good Templars
Os Awvego
N. Y
John Russell
Detroit
J. A. Spencer
Cleveland
James Black
Lancaster
John N. Stearns
New
Washington
Columbus
Black
Good Templar
National Temperance Society
Publication House
Camp Meeting Association
Ocean Grove
N. J
Russell
Neal Dow
Maine
H. A. Thompson
St. John’s
Irances BH. Willard
New York State
Bent
World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Miss Willard
Hyanston
Governmental war measures affect distillers across states
A report notes unemployment and the severity of restrictive wartime measures forcing distillers and brewers to find new plants. It cites a California court action to restrain the governor from certifying a program and mentions state actions in New Mexico California Ohio Nevada Washington North Dakota Mississippi Missouri Kansas Louisiana and Utah. The piece discusses the federal constitution and state referendums amid political contention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Senate
House
Virginia
Kentucky
South Carolina
North Dakota
Maryland
West Virginia
Montana
California
Texas
Washington
Delaware
Indiana
South Dakota
Arkansas
Massachusetts
Illinois
Arizona
North Carolina
Georgia
Kansas
Louisiana
Alabama
Florida
Iowa
Michigan
Colorado
Ohio
Oregon
Oklahoma
New Hampshire
Idaho
Utah
Tennessee
Nebraska
Congress
H. W. Blair
Hobson
Severnl
San Francisco
Stephens
Maine
Nevada
New Mexico
Missouri
New
Mexico
North
Dakota
York
Acknowledgment of Motion Picture Aid in Agriculture Report
The annual secretary of agriculture report notes the motion picture industry’s valuable assistance in promoting food production and conservation. It cites a new appropriation enabling systematic film work, with 600000 people reached at meetings and fairs and 4 million at theaters through the extension service and a cooperating company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Congress
Farm Machinery Maintenance Tips and Care
Practical notes on adjusting farm equipment and lubrication. Emphasizes learning each adjustment and its purpose, oiling bearings and gears, tightening bolts, painting implements every two years, greasing landsides and cultivator parts, and protecting gear when idle for short periods.
Cooperative credit unions urged to aid small farmers
The secretary of agriculture backs personal credit unions for farmers on small scales who lack banking access. He urges rural communities, merchants, and bankers to support education, better farming, marketing, and cooperative finance, with states to take the lead through legislation. North Carolina’s 1915 law already supports rural credit unions and educational work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture
North Carolina
State College of Agriculture
Prep for Ice Harvest and Cooperative Tools
The notice urges final prep for ice cutting with tools like tongs iron bars and saws. It stresses sharpening, repointing cleaning and checking handles and suggests cooperative work with neighbors to share one pond and set of tools. Emphasizes using dry sawdust as insulation and warns wet sawdust wastes ice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Poison plant kills stock in New Mexico county
San Juan County stock losses run into hundreds of sheep and cattle after whorled milkweed was found to be poisonous. County agent educated farmers, meetings were held, and committees were formed to inspect La Plata district with about 20,000 people.
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San Juan County
New Mexico
United States Department of Agriculture
San Juan
la Plata
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E Nation
Sheppard
Worle
Thomas R. Marshall
James M. Bakor
Francesa Willard
First National Ticket
Southgate
Clinton B. Fisk
New Jersey
J. A. Brooks
John Bidwell
J. B. Cranfill
Joshua Levering
Marylind
Hale Johnson
John G. Woolley
Hinois
H. B. Metcalf
Rhode Island
S. C. Swallow
George B. Carroll
Eugene W. Chafin
Illnois
Aaron S. Watkins
Aaron
Watkins
J. Frank Hanley
Ira Landrith
Chautauqua
Temperance Legion
Young Peoples
WUST
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