Plenty of Beer
Readers of the Kearney Daily Hub on August 16, 1930, must have been startled to read that there was "Plenty of Beer to be Had in Kearney and Many Imbibe it." State and ...
Prohibition
What We Found
The Prohibition Amendment
Every election has its hot issues. Deficits and radioactive waste may confront us now, buthere's what voters in 1890 faced:
"The greatest question ever before the ...
Searching for Smuggled Hooch
U. S. Customs and Drug Enforcement Agency officials are kept busy these days searching forsmuggled illegal drugs. Traffickers have hidden drugs in everything from ...
Students and the Saloon
Although dating from the 1870s, the city of Lincoln's preoccupation with the prohibition issue quickened in the first decade of the twentieth century. With the failure ...
Wolfenbarger, Andrew G.
Andrew G. Wolfenbarger (1856-1923), a well-known Lincoln attorney, was for many years a state and national prohibition leader. The Nebraska State Journal of October 9, ...
Woodbey for Regent!
At the Nebraska Prohibition Party's statewide convention in 1895, held in July in Lincoln, C. E. Bentley (who was to be a Prohibition candidate for president in 1896) ...
Johnson, William E.
In December 1933 the Eighteenth Amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicants was repealed by the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment. One of the ...
Lincoln’s Unsolved Homicides
Nebraska voters adopted a prohibitory amendment to the state constitution in 1916, and it took effect in May 1917, two years before the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. ...
Liquor’s Last Days
Nebraska law prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages effective May 1917, two years before the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed ...
A Drink for New Year’s Eve
Douglas County sheriffs after a raid on an illegal still. Ca. 1922.
New Year's Eve in the 1920s saw Nebraskans unable to legally include alcohol in their ...
Elections in Nebraska, 1886
Prohibition was a major issue for Nebraska voters in 1886. While railroads, currency, and tariff reform were debated, the real political interest on the state level was ...
Timeline Tuesday: Bootleggers’ Carnival
The passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed the manufacture and sale of liquor nationwide, but statewide prohibition was already in effect ...
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