Dear Editor: What Do Local Editorials Reveal About Public Opinion On Prohibition?

Jacob Bretz

Summer Fellowship Lesson 2008

Champaign County Historical Archives

Resources

Lesson 1:

Required Sources

“New Local Option Measure.” The Champaign Daily News 16 Mar. 1907.

Kacich, Tom. “C-U was ‘dry’-sort of-long before Prohibition.” Champaign News Gazette 29 Nov. 1998: E1.

Optional Sources

“Mayor-Elect Says Saloons Will Go.” The Champaign Daily News 6 Mar. 1907.

“What Urbana Owes Illinois People.” The Champaign Daily News 13 April 1907.

Lesson 2:

Required Sources

“Concerning Mr. Gray.” The Daily Illini 8 Jan. 1926.

“Champaign County Prisoner Records.” Champaign County Sherriff Log Book 1924-1925

(Scanned from the Champaign County Archives in Urbana, IL)

Optional Sources

Liquor Raid Picture (Scanned from the Champaign County Archives in Urbana, IL)

“Federal Dry Agents.” Champaign News Gazette 25 May 1927.

“Youths Are Disclosed As Dry Sleuths.” Champaign News Gazette 26 May 1927.

“Agents Use Students Decoys.” Urbana Courier 26 May 1927.

Lesson 3:

“Prohibition a Joke” The Daily Illini 25 Jan.1921: 4.

Green, Frederick. “So We May Cheer Up!” The Daily Illini 6 May 1930: 4.

“Prohibitions” The Daily Illini 17 Oct. 1926: 4.

“Saving The Youth Of The Nation” The Daily Illini 5 Feb. 1926: 4.