Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Timeline December 27, Carrie Nation is jailed for smashing a nude painting and mirror in a Wichita saloon. January Carrie makes headlines as a "Saloon Smasher" and a temperance lecturer over the next 10 years. June 9, Carrie Nation dies in a Leavenworth sanatorium. Nearly six feet tall and a strapping lbs.
Nation responded with alacrity to appeals from citizens of other towns to close their saloons. She entered states where liquor sales were legal. Her behavior provoked a tremendous uproar and sent her to jail repeatedly for disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace. Later, fines were paid by the sale of pewter hatchet pins.
Nation wielded her voice as effectively as her hatchet, eloquently speaking her mind and inspiring others on numerous occasions. Even sworn enemies acknowledged her success with compelling enforcement of prohibition laws and spreading her message. The Nations were divorced in and David died in Carry completed her last speaking tour in , owing to failing health. She then purchased property in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. During her lifetime, women were not allowed to vote.
She believed strongly that if she could vote, she would not need to use violence to make her voice heard. Like the prohibitionists, suffragists held parades to gather support for their cause. A suffrage parade in Norborne, Missouri, featured a marching band and a group of future voters. Exhausted and ill, Carry Nation retired to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and bought a house large enough for her and several women who had lost their homes because of alcoholic husbands.
She collapsed while giving a lecture in Eureka Springs in January and died on June 2, , at the age of She is buried beside her mother in Belton, Missouri. The Eighteenth Amendment, passed in , prohibited the sale of alcohol, and the Nineteenth Amendment, ratified in , allowed women to vote. In Prohibition ended with another constitutional amendment. The following is a selected list of books, articles, and manuscripts about Carry A.
The Society is not responsible for the content of the following websites:. Skip to content. Carry A. For more information about Carry A. Articles from the Newspaper Collection Braniff, E. March 29, April 15, June 10, February 18, Books and Articles Asbury, Herbert. Carry Nation. New York: A. Knopf, Foley, Gary R. Kremer, and Kenneth H. Winn, eds. Dictionary of Missouri Biography.
Tipped off that she was coming, the jointists threw up barricades in front of their businesses. Upon arriving and seeing the barricades with the jointists peering out from behind them, Nation laughed and called to the men, "Aren't you going to let your mother in, boys? She wants to talk with you. What followed was extraordinary. Nation spoke gently to the jointists, and gradually they came out from behind the barricades to hear what she had to say. She urged them to close their joints, and made it clear through calm and polite words that she was determined to see them closed.
But there were no hatchetations that day. She wanted the jointists to consider what alcohol did to families, and hoped they would close their businesses and abide by the law. Nation's Topeka visit drew criticism from the media. One reporter from upstate New York called her, "Short and dumpy of figure, rather than tall and commanding; nervous and flighty of manner rather than calm and impressing.
Almost another week passed before Nation and her "Home Defenders," as her supporters came to be known, smashed their first Topeka joint, the Senate Saloon. More quickly followed and Nation was arrested.
Before she laid down her hatchet in and took her fight to the printing press, Nation was arrested 30 different times and David Nation filed for divorce on the grounds of desertion. I believe Mrs.
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