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Moulton Eagle

Location

Moulton, Texas, United States of America

Date

Feb 07, 1919

Page

8

Nation wide prohibition ratified speeding to dry United States

The nation adopts the eighteenth amendment after swift Senate and House action and rapid state ratifications. Mississippi first to ratify, others follow incl Virginia Kentucky South Carolina North Dakota Nebraska Texas California Washington. Prohibition aimed at manufacturing sale and transport of intoxicating liquors becomes law, with nationwide effect planned July 1 1919 subject to ratification timelines.

Nebraska United States Thomas R. Marshall Senate James M. Baker House of Representatives House Mississippi Virginia Kentucky South Carolina North Dakota Morris Sheppard Texas Congress United States of America H. W. Blair New Hampshire Hobson Alabama Works California San Francisco Stephens Arkansas Colorado Maine Nevada New Mexico Oklahoma Oregon Utah Washington Missouri The Anti-Saloon League Topeka Stanley Chicago Connecticut Neal Dow Massachusetts Rhode Island Kansas Idaho Florida Georgia Tennessee Arizona South Dakota Alaska North Carolina West Virginia Ceesseres Ear Town District of Columbia Michigan Wyoming Con

Prohibition Party's Fifty Year Fight And Rise

The article reviews the Prohibition party’s birth in 50 years ago in Chicago with 500 delegates from 19 states, its early tickets and votes, and St Johns vigorous campaigns. It notes Frances Willard and the WCTU backing 1884 and the party's long woman suffrage and temperance efforts. It also highlights the growth of the WCTU movement and its educational and civic programs.

New York State St. John Bentley Nebraska Southgate Illinois National Prohibition Party Farwell Hall Chicago The Good Templars Total Abstainers Pennsylvania Grand Lodge of the Good Templars Oswego N. Y John Russell Detroit J. A. Spencer Cleveland James Black Lancaster John N. Stearns New National Temperance Society Camp Meeting Association Ocean Grove N. J Russell Prohibition Peninsular Herald Green Clay Smith Kentucky Gideon T. Stewart Neal Dow Maine H. A. Thompson Kansas Cold Water Clinton B. Fisk New Jersey J. A. Brooks Missouri John Bidwell California J. B. Cranfill Texas Joshua Levering Maryland Hale Johnson Iinois John G. Wool Indiana Ira Landrith Tennessee Ohio Chautauqua National Woman's Christian Temperance Union Frances E. Willard Frances Willard

Nation of Prohibition Leaders Remembered in Carrie Nation Era

A retrospective recalls world famous temperance figures like Neal Dow John B Gough Frances Willard and Carrie Nation In recounting their lives it notes Dow the Maine law originator Goughs rise from saloon singer to lecturer Willard shaping the WCTU and Nations radical saloon busting fame and the long road to nationwide prohibition.

Neal Dow Maine John B. Gough Frances B. Willard Carrie Nation Portland Maine Volunteers Libby General Dow England United States Massachusetts Frances Willard Frances E. Willard Churchville N. Y Northwestern Female College Evanston, IL Northwestern University David Nation Medicine Lodge Kan Kansas Kiowa Wichita

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