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Celebrating History: Prohibition, illness and gatherings

By Emily Mayer

News was rather quiet in the papers this week 100 years ago. However, over the course of the past year, articles had appeared here and there regarding the issue of prohibition of alcoholic beverages. J. K. Bramble, editor and owner of The Hill County Democrat, was clearly against the idea and published regular articles rallying against any attempts to prohibit alcohol to legal adults (teenagers were quite another matter, as we have learned). The other Havre newspapers, the Promoter and the Plaindealer, weren’t making any noise either way, but would publish an article here...

 

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