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Friday, February 10, 2017

Owning a Piece of History


Carrie Nation

It was 25 Jan 1901 when The Goodland Republic newspaper in Goodland, Kansas reported that my grandfather, Ora Albertson, along with Ivan Higbee were "keeping bach" while Ora's parents, Nathan E. and Mary M. (Hockett) Albertson were in Wichita, having her face doctored. Two weeks later the paper said that they had returned from Wichita after three weeks getting treatment, but she was not any better.

Then a few days later the paper noted that Nathan along with two other Goodland area residents were possessors of pieces of glass from the saloon wrecked at Wichita by Carrie Nation. Was this really true? Was it logical to have happened?

I searched using Google to try to find out more about Carrie Nation. I discovered that it was 27 Dec 1900, when prohibitionist Carrie Nation smashed a saloon in Wichita, Kansas. Since that was just a few weeks before the Albertsons went to Wichita, I can believe that great-grandfather really could have a piece of glass from the saloon smashed by Carrie Nation.









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