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Prohibition in America starts...
Prohibition in America starts...
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January 17, 1920
TAUNTON DAILY GAZETTE, Taunton, Massachusetts, January 17, 1920
* Prohibition in America starts (1st report)
* No beer - liquor
This 10 page newspaper has a three column headline on the front page: "PLAN DRASTIC AND QUICK MEASURES TO ENFORCE THE PROHIBITION LAW" with subhead. (see)
Tells of the official start of prohibition in America as a whole. Other news of the day.
Usual browning with little margin wear, otherwise good.
wikipedia notes: In the history of the United States, Prohibition is the period from 1920 to 1933, during which the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol for consumption were banned nationally as mandated in the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Prohibition of alcohol can also refer to the antecedent religious and political temperance movements calling for sumptuary laws to end or encumber alcohol use.
Following significant pressure on lawmakers as a result of the temperance movement, the United States Senate proposed the Eighteenth Amendment on December 18, 1917. The 18th Amendment was certified as ratified on January 16, 1919, having been approved by 36 states, and went into effect on January 16, 1920. Some state legislatures had already enacted statewide prohibition prior to the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment.
Category: The 20th Century
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