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A virulent anti-alcohol newspaper...
A virulent anti-alcohol newspaper...
Item # 697317
July 09, 1884
THE KANSAS PROHIBITIONIST, Leavenworth, Kansas, July 9, 1884 A virulent newspaper campaigning against alcohol. An intriguing masthead featuring scenes of "Barbarism of the Past" and "The Saloons Must Go" and "Civilization of the Present".
The front page column heads include: "Blood!" "Murder! Murder!!" "Leavenworth Has Laid Another Human Life on the Alter of Rum!!!" "Another Widow Has Been Made that the Beer Gardens May Thrive!!!!" "The Drunk Man Was Killed but rthe Beer Garden Escaped!!!!!"
This is the first of this title we have found.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, a few creases and mild margin wear, generally good condition.
Category: Post-Civil War
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