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 ...

Post-Dispatch archives Oct 23, 2025 Oct 23, 2025 0 See the front pages for this week in 1925. (9) updates to this series since Oct 23, 2025 Headlines from the Oct. 23, 1925, front page include: $5 ...

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In the Capitol’s legislative and judicial laboratories, a decade of scrutiny and debate has been expended upon those cloudy tinctures, the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act. Since the Volstead Act ...

If you've driven or walked through downtown Spokane in the past few weeks, you've likely noticed that Post Street is closed for construction between Sprague and Riverside avenues. Large fences ...

In its era, they called it the "Volstead Act," so named because of the amendment's major proponent, Andrew Volstead. In reality, it would become the 18th Amendment to the United States ...

John Philip Hill of Baltimore, Republican Congressman from the third District of Maryland, indicted for violating the Volstead Act (TIME, Oct. 6), was tried last week. And John Philip Hill was ...

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 ...

It may be a small matter to legislators and the general public that hotels with fewer than 25 rooms cannot offer a mini-bar to patrons. But it’s a big deal if you’re a startup small boutique hotel ...

As he and his bandmates worked the small room between sets talking to each and every audience member, Gary Raynor raised a question likely voiced by a lot of musicians who play Fingal’s Cave. “How did ...