Very scarce entire year, January 2, 1915 through December 25, 1915, of The American Issue, an important Prohibitionist periodical published by the Anti-Saloon League.
The American Issue. January to December 1915. Issued weekly, 16pp each. 832pp total.
Very nicely preserved small folio measuring approximately 10 x 13 inches, probably bound during the period or slightly thereafter in very good quality buckram and linen cloth by E. H. Sell of Columbus, OH. Aside from some rubbing on boards, fine, clean, and crisp.
Contents include:
*The Maryland-Delaware Anti-Saloon League
*Expert Testimony on Effect of Alcohol on Human Life
*Story of the Fight on Floor of Congress for Prohibition Amendment
*Russia and Prohibition. Not an Arrest in Petrograd in Four Days
*Teach Fathers Fatherhood by Cora Francis Stoddard
*Anti-Saloon League's Big Campaign in Louisiana
*Colorado Newspaper Thinks Wyoming will go Dry
*Prohibition in Wheeling West Virginia
*Russia Seeks New Use of Alcohol
*Ohio Dry Wins Legislature
*South Carolina to Vote on State Wide Prohibition
*Reasons for the Crusade against Liquor by A. C. Bane
*Wets' Fake Statistics Travel Far
*Drunk at Five Years of Age. Jack London's First Bout with John Barleycorn
*Chicago Evening Post Calls Vote on Hobson Amendment Greatest Prohibition Victory Ever Scored in the United States
*Another Liquor Bugaboo Exposed
*Alcohol and the Nervous System
*Moderate Drinking and Health
*The National Convention of the Anti-Saloon League of America with Senator Morris Sheppard
*The House the Busch Built
*The Fallacies of Charles P. Coady re: The Hobson Amendment
*Alabama Repents
*Ex Governor M. R. Patterson Exposes Weakness of States' Rights Plea with Reference to Prohibition
*Attorney General of Texas Files Suit to Oust Seven Breweries
*Lord Mayor of Moscow Thanks Czar for Prohibition
*Two Great Democrats and the Liquor Traffic
*The True Relation of the Liquor Traffic to Labor in Baltimore as Revealed by the Industrial Survey
*War, Liquor, and Labor
*Idaho Legislature Submits Prohibition Amendment
*Prohibition Increases Russian Savings
*The Value of Prohibition to a Nation's Treasury
*Ohio Catholics Form Prohibition Union
*The Bartender who would not Drink
*The Liquor Traffic the Principal Cause of Commercialized Vice - Prostitution
*Applying Topeka's Test for Drunkenness in Some Other Cities.
*One Third of the States now Dry
*Divorce, Destitution, and Drink
*The South Ablaze. Great Campaign in Southern States for National Prohibition
*Prohibition Stops Crime
*Will the Courts be Corrupted?
*The Latest Stunt of the United Brewers' Association
*Kansas Senate Denounces Liquor Falsehoods
*Congressman Decker Slugs John Barleycorn
*Booker T. Washington. The Negro and the Liquor Traffic
*The Anti-Saloon League Convention in Atlantic City
*Prohibition and Moonshine
*Billy Sunday and the Campaign for State-wide Prohibition
*Mormons, Methodists, and Prohibition
*Whisky the Home Wrecker
*Abraham Lincoln and the Liquor Traffic
*Secretary William Jennings Bryan Signs Thousands for Total Abstinence
*Dry Wave Hits Alaska
*Baltimore's Booze Bill
*The Federal Dope Law [Prohibiting the sale of Opium and Cocaine]
*The Truth about West Virginia. The Liquor Traffic Distorts the Facts Again
*What is a Hell-Hole?
*The Dawn of World-Wide Prohibition
*The Christian Man and the Booze Argument
*Michigan to Initiate Proposition for Constitutional Prohibition Amendment
*Elder Joseph F. Smith says Church of the Latter Day Saints wants Prohibition
*Rum Ridden Cincinnati Facing Bankruptcy
*The Relation of the Church to the Reform Movement
*President Wilson's Position not Consistent
*King Alcohol Must Die
*The Grogseller's Dream by William N. Burleigh
*Lincoln Tries Case against Liquorites; Defending Women for Destroying Whiskey in Defense of their Boys
*Baseball and Booze cannot be Mixed
*Personal Liberty League and the Liquor Traffic
*Campbell Soup Company's Head Against the Saloon
*A Battle Hymn by Mrs. Elizabeth DeMotte Case
*Kentucky Distillers Agree to Cut Whisky Production
*Attorneys for Dope Makers Score an Attorney for Booze Makers [Fascinating; argued that the anti-narcotic law denies users the "pursuit of happiness" and is therefore un-American.]
*Dr. Russell and the Rail-Splitter Quartet on their Water Wagon Tour
*Liquor and the Cost of Life Insurance
*Advertizing Booze
*Mayor of Chicago Closes Sunday Bars
*Japan Getting Ready to Oust Liquor
*Abraham Linoln and Temperance
*How One Quick-Witted Woman made Kansas Dry [ Margaret V. Greever ]
*Closing in on Rum Devil
*Birmingham, Alabama has Fewest Arrests in its History
*France Restricts Drinking
*How Sunday Schools are Helping in the War on Alcohol
*The Tavern-Keepers Home and Family; An Enthralling Story by a Sufferer.
Etc. etc. etc.