Near Medicine Lodge, Kan., stands a five-room brick cottage, from which, 27 years ago, crusaded Carrie Nation, Prohibitionist, Reformer, Hatchet-Wielder. Last week Prohibitionists began a movement to preserve this cottage as a Carrie Nation Memorial.
In 1865 a young physician, one Dr. David Gloyd, was boarding at the Kansas home of one George Moore. Attracted by Mr. Moore's daughter Carrie, then 19, Dr. Gloyd, taking her by surprise, grasped and kissed her. Thereupon Carrie burst into tears, put her hands over her eyes, cried out: "I am ruined! I am ruined!" Rising to the...
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