Back in January of 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. Authored by U.S. Sen. Morris Sheppard of Texarkana, the amendment banned the manufacture, sale or ...

A group of people dismantling a still at Pillsbury and Charles Streets in St. Paul, c. 1925. Credit: Minnesota Historical Society Minnesota news you can count on. From local stories to explanations on ...

If Andrew Volstead smiled much, it was hard to notice beneath his bushy mustache. Google his image and it's one scowl after another beneath piercing eyes. Even his oversized portrait made entirely of ...

Sam Picalas made 60 gals, of elderberry wine. It contained 5% alcohol. He drank some, was not intoxicated. U. S. agents seized him. A U. S. court in West Virginia convicted him of violating the ...

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