Subscribe for more In 1920, $10 could buy you a full week of groceries... or a one-way ticket to a jail cell. Were diving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 18th Amendment was the amendment frequently referred to as the “Prohibition Amendment.” It was ratified by the states on Jan.

The Volstead Act, which enforced prohibition into law, came into effect in 1920. Congress overrode President Woodrow Wilson’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The time between 1920 and 1933 was known as the Prohibition era in the United States. For more than a decade, alcohol was outlawed ...

Prolific Iowa author and historian Linda McCann presented a program on Tuesday at the Marshalltown Public Library based on ...

Prohibition was a time of bathtub gin and rum runners, when America technically gave up alcohol for about 13 years. And though the government turned off the tap for all kinds of liquor, there was a ...

Tuesday marks 90 years since the end of Prohibition, the 13-year federal ban on alcohol now largely viewed as a failed experiment that glamorized illegal drinking. The Prohibition Era lasted from Jan.

When the 18th Amendment outlawed alcohol in 1920, it set the stage for an underground empire unlike anything America had seen before. Prohibition-era gangsters stepped into the void, building fortunes ...

CROSBY — Unlimited Learning will host a presentation about bootlegging “moonshine” whiskey in Stearns County during Prohibition (1920-1933) at 1:30 p.m. on Sept. 9 at Heartwood Senior Living in Crosby ...

Prohibitioned opened in downtown Gaylord in February with a modern twist on the 1920s era speakeasy with the comfort of a ...