100 years ago: A Prohibition New Year's Eve in Erie
"It doesn't require liquor, after all, to assure the success of a New Year's celebration, as thousands of Erieites proved Friday night." The pronouncement by the Erie Dispatch Herald — on Jan. 1, 1921, after the first New Year's Eve of Prohibition — seemed half-hearted. But for Erieites in that new year, the continuing prohibition against alcohol was one of just a few clouds on the horizon. The city was in the midst of a building boom. Women had voted for the first time in the November presidential election, helping to elect Warren Harding. Army aviators had flown 9,000 miles from ...
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