Samuel Avery

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18th Amendment | Lincoln | Prohibition | Samuel Avery | University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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 ...

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