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The Weekly Minnesotian
Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota
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In Ashland, Ohio, thirty women protested liquor sales by marching to saloons, disarming and evicting Anthony Jacob, destroying his bagatelle board and liquor barrels, and doing the same at Mrs. Witz's. Other sellers capitulated, halting all liquor sales. Jacob and others sued the women.
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has been made in Ashland to have a prohibitory liquor statute enacted, but the Council refused. Whereupon thirty ladies assembled and
marching to the door of Anthony Jacob's, requested him to discontinue the sale of liquors
and the use of his "bagatelle" board. He refused,
and seizing a musket, the coward pointed it towards the ladies and threatened to shoot if they
offered to molest him. But Mrs. Kellogg, rather a small woman, but chock full of fire, collared the rascal and held him while the other
ladies wrested it from him, and then put him
out of the house. Then splintering his "bagatelle" board and opening very serious leaks in
the heads of his liquor barrels, they proceeded
to "Mother Yunkers" or more properly Mrs.
Witz who also proving a "hard case," her liquors
were set gurgling over the cellar bottom. The
other liquor establishments cried "peccavi,"
and now no liquor can be had in the place. Jacobs and his crew have instituted legal proceedings against the whole band of ladies.—Mansfield (Ohio) Herald.
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Ashland
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liquor sales discontinued in ashland; jacobs and others instituted legal proceedings against the women.
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Thirty ladies assembled after council refused prohibitory liquor statute, marched to Anthony Jacob's, requested discontinuation of liquor sales and bagatelle board use. He refused and threatened with musket. Mrs. Kellogg held him while others took the musket and evicted him, splintered bagatelle board, leaked liquor barrels. They then went to Mrs. Witz's, leaked her liquors. Other establishments capitulated.