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Libraries In Negro High Schools Of Missouri, Adolphus R. Houston
Libraries In Negro High Schools Of Missouri, Adolphus R. Houston
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This study proposes to do the following things: (1) to find out the type of libraries that Negro high schools of Missouri have; (2) to discover something about their organization and administration; (3) to ascertain what equipment and furniture they have; (4) to learn the library policy and uses made of libraries; (5) to find out what services libraries offer students; (6) to procure information about their distribution of volumes; (7) to ascertain the number and kind of periodicals received; (8) to suggest that Negro high schools without libraries provide the best possible type that the school can afford.
Prohibition In Kansas From 1861-1881, Edna Pearl Elliott
Prohibition In Kansas From 1861-1881, Edna Pearl Elliott
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During the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804, the liquor problem first entered Kansas, when two men were punished for drunkenness while on duty. From 1804 to 1848 little is to be found in records that gives any information on this question but from 1848 to 1861 it was a live issue. Laws were enacted prohibiting the sale of intoxicating beverages to the Indians, the Dram-shop Law of 1855 was passed, the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention was held, and Kansas was admitted as a state January 29, 1861, without a liquor control law in her Constitution. The demand for better liquor …