Prohibition is now widely seen as a failed ... It would be repealed in 1933 after alcohol smuggling fueled the rise of organized crime and a host of other unintended consequences.

another gang stole four casks of grain alcohol from a government bonded warehouse, and still another hijacked a truck carrying whiskey. Americans were about to discover that making Prohibition the ...

Several towns, states, and territories separately and previously banned alcohol consumption, but national Prohibition began ... a brick shape and wrapped in paper. Another nickname was raisin ...

Arkansas has always been somewhat ambivalent about the use of alcohol. From the earliest days of settlement, the state has ...

However, Prohibition achieved more success when another campaigning group, the Anti-Saloon League, turned its campaigns to banning alcohol rather than asking people not to drink. National ...

Dry counties and towns are places where the sale of alcohol is prohibited in stores and restaurants. Before a nationwide prohibition was enacted, Chillicothe Gazette articles show that surrounding ...

When Becky Richey and her husband opened C&T’s Pizza in New Florence a quarter-century ago, it never occurred to them that ...

Within a few years, the federal government extended Prohibition on alcohol to all states. The following year, in 1919, the Volstead Act set out the details of what Prohibition meant and the ...

By law, businesses are not allowed to sell beer, wine or spirits within its borders, a prohibition in place since 1985. But that ban on alcohol in this “dry” desert oasis, 95 miles north of ...