Strong Women, Strong Views

Carrie Nation was a Temperance activist prior to the 18th Amendment.  She was known for taking a hatchet into bars and smashing liquor bottles and bar mirrors.

Women who wanted Prohibition to be repealed so in order to create jobs and industry in the failing economy of the Great Depression

18th Amendment Ratified

On January 16, 1919 the 18th Amendment was ratified and the nation became dry.  Prohibition had begun.  Papers across Ohio and across the nation heralded the news on January 17th.