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Prohibition Bombs. Vol. I, No. 16. April 17, 1886. "Patriotic Prohibition."
Prohibition Bombs. Vol. I, No. 16. April 17, 1886. "Patriotic Prohibition."
Prohibition Bombs. Vol. I, No. 16. April 17, 1886. "Patriotic Prohibition."
Prohibition Bombs. Vol. I, No. 16. April 17, 1886. "Patriotic Prohibition."
Prohibition Bombs. Vol. I, No. 16. April 17, 1886. "Patriotic Prohibition."
Demorest, W. Jennings (ed.); Charles W. Sanders (contrib.)

Prohibition Bombs. Vol. I, No. 16. April 17, 1886. "Patriotic Prohibition."


New York: Prohibition Lecture Bureau, 1886.

8vo, 4pp. Single issue of the "Tracts For the Times, Issued Weekly, by the Prohibition Lecture Bureau." Good+ with splitting to the outer 2" of the lower crease (where it was folded into thirds), threatening to separate, but not affecting legibility; two pencil marks of an editorial nature.

Includes "Patriotic Prohibition" by Charles W. Sanders (author of Sanders' Spelling Book) and "A Moral Revolution Pending" by the editor, husband of Ellen Demorest (inventor of printed tissue dressmaking patterns and founder of ladies' fashion journal Demorest's Monthly). As putting Bombs in the title might suggest, Mr. Demorest's target audience was male. Notes the introduction of "malt whiskey" as a medicinal cure; together with the patriotic angle, it brings to mind the self-medication of wounded veterans, even two decades past the Civil War. Prohibition Bombs was published from 1886-1888; this issue lacking from the NYPL microfilm series.