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 ...
temperance
What We Found
W.C.T.U.’s Crusade Against Drugs
Drug abuse problems in Nebraska and the rest of the country during the late nineteenth century involved different substances than those commonly mentioned in the crime ...
Joint Smashing Justified
Carry A. Nation's visits to Nebraska in early 1902 were among the few she made to this state. She was in Hastings in March, speaking at the Kerr Opera House and touring ...
Nation, Carry
Carry Nation's visit to Kansas in early 1901 was marked by the anti-saloon forays (with her trademark hatchet) for which she is chiefly remembered. When finished in ...
Nation, Carry, in Nebraska City, 1902
Carry Nation's visits to Nebraska in early 1902 were among the few she made to this state. She was in Hastings in March, speaking at the Kerr Opera House and touring ...
Finch, John B.
John B. Finch (1852-87) was a nationally known temperance worker and lecturer who spent many of his productive years in Nebraska. He introduced the Red Ribbon reform ...
Bittenbender, Ada C.
Ada Cole Bittenbender, a leader in the woman suffrage and temperance movements, was also one of Nebraska's first woman lawyers and only the third woman admitted to ...
Timeline Tuesday: Lurking in every Coca Cola glass is an ‘evil principle’
Caption: Interior of Fred Trute’s liquor store, Seward, Nebraska. RG2536-5-10
Readers of The Nebraska Issue (Lincoln), official organ of the Anti-Saloon ...
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