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Subscribers who took the hook usually gave our phantom prohibitionist hell, then said they were sorry for her poor henpecked husband. Occasionally someone would write in to agree with...
...routine handling brought a roar of protest from liquor dealers, amazed at the gullibility of Eugene C. Pulliam's* Republic. The letter, they said, was a fake, a rewrite of old prohibitionist propaganda that had been planted in the Republic as part of the drys' campaign to put over a local option law backed, added the wets, by Oklahoma bootleggers anxious to expand their business...
Died. Ernest Hurst Cherrington, 72, tireless prohibitionist, founder (1919) of the World League Against Alcoholism, onetime editor of Anti-Saloon League publications (The American Issue, The American Patriot); of cancer; in Worthington, Ohio...
These last two items led to the invasion of the hall by Carrie Nation, an axe-wielding prohibitionist. During the noon meal on November 14, 1902, she appeared in the gallery, where visitors came to "watch the animals eat", and was immediately recognized with cheers and jeers from the floor below. She shouted, "Boys! Don't eat that infernal stuff, it's poison." When she headed down the stairs with her nickel-plated hatchets, students quickly crowded around her, offering cigarettes and cigars, which she struck to the floor with indignation. When an uproarious mob had swept her into Sanders...
...prohibition. Last June, when the county decided to vote on whether to repeal prohibition, wet Publisher Gray and dry Editor Martin found themselves at odds about Journal policy. Gray decided to run pro-repeal editorials (by associate editors) in both papers, give Martin a chance to answer with signed prohibitionist editorials in the Journal...