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It's The Smart Little Feller Who Stocked Up His Cellar (That's Getting The Beautiful Girls)

Poster for a song from the Prohibition-era about how drinking will bring you good things, including wealth and women

Prohibition-Related Arrests Made in Richmond

Newspaper article from the Alexandria Gazette. It explained that Prohibition officers from Richmond seized three “machines” (likely automobiles) and…

Officers Arrested Men and Seized Alcohol in Goochland and Franklin County, Virginia

This article, written by the Richmond Times, explained that state Prohibition officers arrested five men, captured three distilleries, confiscated two…

Secret Illegal Distillery Discovered Near Franklin County

This is a newspaper article from Danville, Virginia, about an illegal distillery that was discovered by local law enforcement in the Appalachian…

Bootlegger Boat Set on Fire to Destroy Evidence

A rumrunner boat was set on fire in 1923 by its crew to destroy evidence of alcohol onboard.

Red Cross Statistics Given

This newspaper article inside the Virginia Star, provides the statistical viewpoint of the Women of Virginia Red Cross contributions in the war…

Women At War — Janey

A small newspaper exert in the Highland Recorder of a little girl named Janey writing a letter to former secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau…

Record War Bond Sales Is Goal Of Women At War Week Nov. 22

An article in the Highland Recorder newspaper, talking about the success of the Women at War Week, praised by former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The…

Women Want Office Work; Other Vital Jobs Go Begging

A newspaper article going over the several jobs women can choose from as the campaign for more women workers progressed. It lists jobs that are…

Senior Girls! 10 Reasons Why you will find Telephone Company work attractive

An ad inside the Jeffersonian newspaper, calling out for senior girls to work in a telephone company by listing 10 reasons why they would find it…