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On June 7, 1899, anti-alcohol crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing establishments that serve liquor by using rocks to smash the inventory of a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas. After that, she becomes famous for marching into bars and destroying fixtures and stock with a hatchet while singing and praying. She is arrested about 30 times for these ‘hatchetations’ between 1900 and 1910, and pays her jail fines from lecture-tour fees and sales of souvenir hatchets. (Photo: Carrie Nation with her hatchet in 1910.) |
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