Documents Tagged ‘Prohibition’
Three Are Arrested in Raid Sunday Night
Archive Entry Date: 10/14/1929
Possessing “intoxicating liquor” proved a costly offense for Marie Carter
Three Taken in Raid
Archive Entry Date: 10/11/1929
Marie appears to have bootlegged out of her home — and was arrested for it
Police Notes: Thomas Bryant’s Liquor Charge
Archive Entry Date: 02/16/1927
Thomas Bryant, Marie's soon-to-be second husband, was convicted of bootlegging
Peoria Busier Than Ever But Much Drier
Archive Entry Date: 9/8/26
Early on, Peoria was “the city of high spirits,” a center for the distillery business
The Peoria Protest
Archive Entry Date: 10/4/25
Prohibition seemed to many Peorians a violation of fundamental human rights