Tag: Prohibition

We've stumbled across an amazing character from Washington's past, one to rival (but not surpass, of course) Officer Sprinkle. No doubt, the two of...

That's a pretty good attention grabbing headline from the Washington Post. And I think this is appropriate, given the current media focus on the...

Meet Major Walton Atwater Green, Chief Prohibition Inspector for Washington, D.C. This is not a guy you want to cross. Don't let him catch...

Do you like your beer, wine or liquor? The Sheppard Bone-Dry Act of 1917 would have put a major damper on your libations when...

Here's a cool advertisement for Budweiser in the Washington Times. This is from 1917 and what's interesting, of course, is that the sale of...

December 10th, 1913 -- Over 4,000 Temperance movement and Prohibition supporters marched in Washington, demanding a new constitutional amendment banning alcohol consumption in the...

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A couple of reader comments about an Officer Sprinkle in this earlier post piqued my interest in finding out a little more about the...