The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation.
Topeka: F. M. Steves & Sons, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 199pg. 3 ads. Bound in mustard colored cloth. Frontispiece portrait of the author. 9 full page photos. Front gutter cracked. Discoloartion to the boards. Carry A. Nation was a radical member of the temperance movement before prohibition. Nation was known for trashing bars, in her own words: “I ran behind the bar, smashed the mirror and all the bottles under it; picked up the cash register, threw it down; then broke the faucets of the refrigerator, opened the door and cut the rubber tubes that conducted the beer. “I threw over the slot machine…and got from it a sharp piece of iron with which I opened the bungs of the beer kegs, and opened the faucets of the barrels, and then the beers flew in every direction and I was completely saturated.”. Fair. Item #60547
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