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This correspondence was sent and received by Frank M. Stahl, superintendent of the Kansas State Temperance Union. A letter from James K. Shields, state superintendent for the Anti-Saloon League of Illinois, asks for Stahl's assistance in recruiting Governor Walter R. Stubbs for a temperance rally in Springfield, Illinois, in opposition to the "United Societies boozers of Chicago." A letter from J. F. Baker, legislative superintendent for the Wisconsin Anti-Saloon League seeks information about prohibitory zones around Kansas universities as the state of Wisconsin attempts to exclude saloons from the college town of Madison. Correspondence with W. H. Edmundson and E. D. Mikesell, attorneys in Fredonia, regards the selling and prosecution of "Belgian Beer" which supposedly contained one-half of one percent of alcohol and was sold by children at lemonade stands. Stahl responded that "the internal revenue collectors have rather overstepped their duties." Although Kansas was the first state to adopt a constitutional amendment prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors in 1880, the law was largely unenforced.
Date: 1911-1912
Item Number: 227706
Call Number: Temperance History Coll. #645, Box 13
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 227706
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Lawyers
Collections - Manuscript - History - Temperance
Community Life - Clubs and organizations - Reform/Advocacy - Kansas State Temperance Union
Date - 1910s - 1911
Date - 1910s - 1912
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Prohibition and temperance
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Stubbs, Walter Roscoe
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Correspondence
Places - Cities and towns - Fredonia
Places - Counties - Cherokee
Places - Counties - Crawford
Places - Counties - Wilson
Places - Other States - Illinois - Chicago
Places - Other States - Wisconsin - Madison
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Correspondence
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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