Medium: Text
Date: Between 1899 and 1900
The North Dakota Temperance Commissioner Bill, which states that it will help enforce prohibition. The document asks that the people of Kansas organize and work for the enactment of a…
Medium: Text
Date: 1899
A booklet written by M. N. Butler that focuses on the “Klondike” in Leavenworth County, an area known for it’s blatant disregard of the liquor laws. Butler hopes that his…
Medium: Text
Date: 1897
A leaflet distributed by The Christian Citizens’ League of Topeka, asking the public who will they vote for in the election for Sheriff of Shawnee County. The two candidates being…
Medium: Text
Date: 1896
A prize essay written by the Reverend Richard Wake on the reasons for the suppression of the liquor trade. Wake writes that human progress, the suffering of millions, the medical…
Medium: Text
Date: October 20, 1896
A notice to Christian voters stating Kansas Governor Edmund Morrill supports the resubmission of liquor into the state. Richard Wake, author of this notice, includes a copy of a letter…
Medium: Text
Date: 1894
A temperance booklet that notes “morbid appetite, once created is the tyrant which ruins the individual,” and that abstinence from a habit which has no benefit, such as coffee, tobacco,…
Medium: Text
Date: January 3, 1892
The Ministerial Union of Topeka, a group composed of ministers of all denominations representing their churches, requests the support of the Senators and Representatives of Kansas in the effort to…
Medium: Text
Date: October 25, 1890
A leaflet encouraging the voters of Riley County to vote for prohibition in the upcoming election. It suggests that voters should put minor issues aside and vote solely on prohibition.
Medium: Text
Date: 1890
Last Follies, written by George Maskoff, is a play that focuses on Maskoff’s non-partisan study of the effects prohibition law had on the public. The events and actors of the…
Medium: Text
Date: 1890
A small pamphlet written by Reverend H.W. Hampe on the duty and work of the Gospel Ministry to “strike at the root of all evils in Church”, one being the…
Medium: Text
Date: May 30, 1895
This memorial album of Lawrence, Kansas, was published on Decoration Day (Memorial Day) in commemoration of the unveiling of the citizens monument in Oak Hill Cemetery in honor of the…
Medium: Text
Date: March 25, 1886
In this draft letter, Kansas Governor John Martin of Topeka calls upon local county and city officials to discharge their duties to preserve the peace, protect property and see that…
Medium: Text
Date: April 4, 1886
The Kansas adjutant general at Parsons sends a telegram to Governor John Martin of Topeka asking the governor for permission to furnish the mayor of Parsons with one hundred guns…
Medium: Text
Date: April 1, 1886
In this letter, the local authorities of Labette County, Kansas, plead with Kansas governor John Martin for militia support to preserve order in Parsons during the railroad strike of 1886.…
Medium: Text
Date: March 24, 1886
This proclamation, issued by Missouri governor John S. Marmaduke, calls upon the Missouri Pacific Railway Company to resume traffic of all kinds following a disruption caused by striking workers. The…
Medium: Text
Date: March 31, 1886
Kansas Governor John Martin updates the adjutant general on negotiations between the Knights of Labor Union and the railroads. In this letter, the governor reports that the Knights of Labor…
Medium: Text
Date: March 31, 1886
Kansas adjutant general Colonel A. B. Campbell writes to Kansas governor John Martin concerning striking railroad workers. The state militia had been called into service as a result of disruption…
Medium: Text
Date: April 2, 1886
Kansas Governor John Martin of Topeka writes to the adjutant general with detailed instructions on how to proceed when calling the state militia into active service. The Sheriff of Labette…
Medium: Text
Date: March 1886
This document from Kansas Governor John Martin’s correspondence may have been written by the Knights of Labor and outlines eleven demands termed the “basis of settlement” for strike negotiations. The…
Medium: Text
Date: April 12, 1886
Railroad commissioner F.H. Belton writes to Kansas Governor Martin of Topeka from Kansas City, Missouri. Belton tells Governor Martin that there are a number of laborers at work at Cypress…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1883 and 1903
An article by Albert Griffin stating the saloon is the “enemy of society”. Griffin would like to see deficient laws and unfair customs reformed and fewer working man’s wages spent…
Medium: Text
Date: October 06, 1887
An address by Albert Griffin to the Third Party Prohibitionists delivered in the Church of the Saviour in New York City, New York on October 6, 1887. Griffin, the Chairman…
Medium: Text
Date: 1883
A proposed temperance law suggested by W. J. Buchan; which would later on in 1883 become Senate Bill number 74. This proposal would prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating…
Medium: Text
Date: 1863
This pamphlet explains the laws of education in the state of Kansas and how they relate to a common school. An index is provided in the front of the book…
Medium: Text
Date: April 11, 1879
A.T. Hall, Jr., Deputy District Clerk of Nicodemus, Kansas, and E.P. McCabe the Notary Public of Nicodemus in Graham County are requesting that Governor St. John honor a promise he…
