The third and last wave of temperance in the United States saw the rise of the Anti-Saloon League during 1893-1933. This heavily prohibitionist wave attracted a diverse coalition: doctors, pastors, and eugenicists; Klansmen and liberal internationalists; business leaders and labor radicals; conservative evangelicals and liberal theologians. Here in Cuyahoga Falls, the big push was in 1911-12.
I love how it comes right out and says that anyone drinking is an idiot – with a capital I
This is a beer glass from a Cuyahoga Falls Front Street saloon in the 1800s. Women weren’t allowed in, so my great-great-? grandfather would hand a glass of beer out the back door to his wife on a hot, summer afternoon. My grandmother always filled it with daffodils …
Thank you so much for sharing! You have a fantastic family story and piece of history!