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During a 10-day tour between Topeka court appearances, temperance crusader Carry A. Nation stayed overnight in Muscatine and visited seven saloons, including J.M. Wier’s at 221 E. 2nd St. She told a large audience in Muscatine’s Grand Opera House that she would not use her famous hatchet in Iowa “until all the hell holes in my own state of Kansas are wiped out of existence.” Muscatine had 27 saloons in 1901. Nation’s activism hastened adoption of prohibition and, with it, the era of bootlegging.
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Muscatine, Iowa · United States
