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Tempest in a Teardrop: The Churchians

Tag Archives: Prohibition

Hystory: Prohibition I – The Carries

26 Thursday Aug 2021

Posted by Quizzer in Politics, Pop Culture

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Welcome to Hystory: Hysterical History. Pull up your fainting couches while an old spork explores Prohibition. If you’re already prone because I made up a word, this is going to be a rough ride. It gets much, much more ridiculous. Turns out we’re not living in the first Clown World.

Carrie Nation. Prohibition Enthusiast. Ruining Everything. c1900.

Meet Carrie Nation. It was a different era in the early 1900s: They had Carries. Mrs. Nation hated all things booze and started a local branch of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, in 1889. It wasn’t very popular because Carrie was terrible at marketing. She didn’t have the face for it. Continue reading →

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