Confronted with the loss of booze, Americans comforted themselves with ice cream. Lots and lots of ice cream. A group of men and women eat ice cream together in the 1930s. By that time, ice cream was ...
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“Whiskey flasks touted their full or honest measure of contents,” Hartman writes. “Medicine bottles listed conditions that ...
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“We cheerfully accept the will of the majority. . . .”—John Raskob. Michigan’s chief prohibiter, the Rev. R. N. Holsaple, wrote Mr. Raskob a letter. Did Mr. Raskob mean that he & friends would now ...
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As America pushed westward, old divisions over slavery deepened — setting the stage for Civil War. America was halfway through its first full century as a free nation in 1850. Its population numbered ...