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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1919
Page
6
The nation edges toward the eighteenth amendment as ratification nears and lawmen prepare for enforcement. Wets threaten legal challenges while dry groups push for strict measures and election-year enforcement across states.
The National Prohibition party, fifty years old, held a Chicago convention with about 600 attendees from 19 states. The party, founded after temperance activism, traced its roots to 1867 and the Good Templars, with John Russell and James Black among early leaders. John P. St. John’s 1884 campaign boosted the party in a fight against prohibition opponents, and Willard led a large petition to Republicans.
The article traces the temperance movement from its early pledges to total abstinence and prohibition. It highlights John B Gough as a key figure, detailing his birth in 1817, conversion, and rise as a famed temperance lecturer who spoke to thousands across the United States and England.
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