1855 INDIANA PROHIBITION. Rare Letter Celebrating 1855 Indiana Prohibition. Close the Grog Shops! Missionary let it alone this year

let it alone this year also

It is obvious why the publisher would want this illustration

Our Heroes by William H

to His Father [Extensive Letter]

April 30th  as a day of fasting and humiliation and prayer in obedience to the call of the President of the United States

1855 INDIANA PROHIBITION. Rare Letter Celebrating 1855 Indiana Prohibition. Close the Grog Shops! Missionary let it alone this yearA rather interesting February 12, 1855 letter with detailed account of the passage of the 1855 Act of Prohibition in Indiana, passed after the Maine Act, and here declared to be even more severe. The act would go into effect on July 4th of the same year and impose severe financial fines and imprisonment for producers and distributors. Extracts: "We are enjoying good health and have plenty of mush and milk, so you see we have no reason to grumble. I