Carry A. NationTemperance Timeline
1855 Lawrence women smash a saloon in one of the earliest recorded acts of violence against such establishments.
1874 Woman's Christian Temperance Union founded in Cleveland, Ohio.
1881 Kansas outlaws the manufacture and sale of alcohol through a constitutional amendment.
Summer 1899 Carry Nation and Mrs. Wesley Cain raid Mart Strong's joint in Medicine Lodge.
February 16, 1900 Carry and others raid the pharmacy of O.L. Day in Medicine Lodge.
June 6, 1900 Inspired by a dream, Carry travels alone to Kiowa and smashes several joints.
December 27, 1900 Carry smashes the Hotel Carey saloon in Wichita. It was in Wichita that Carry Nation and the hatchet came together.
January 21, 1901 Two more Wichita saloons are wrecked by Carry.
January 23, 1901 After destroying a joint in Enterprise, Carry is attacked by the jointist's wife and other women.
January 26, 1901 Carry arrives in the capital city of Topeka.
February 5, 1901 Carry destroys Topeka's Senate Saloon, a favorite of Kansas legislators. Other prohibitionists are active at Harper, Hollenberg, and Winfield.
February 7, 1901 Carry addresses both houses of the Kansas legislature.
February 9, 1901 Citizens smash joints in Holton.
February 12, 1901 Kansas State Temperance Union and the Women's Christian Temperance Union urge uprisings against saloons. 600 people sign resolutions to close the joints in Wichita.
February 13, 1901 Citizens take action against saloons in Osage City, Coffeyville, Smith Center, Solomon, Goff, Winfield, Arkansas City, Sterling, Garden City, Wellington, Perry, and Paola.
February 17, 1901 Carry and 500 followers destroy 7 joints and a cold storage house in Topeka.
February 18-23, 1901 Citizens act against saloons in Leavenworth, Hutchinson, Lawrence, Herington, Silver Lake, Eureka, Millwood, Garden Plain, Chanute, Scott City, Junction City, Fort Scott, and Marshall County.
March 12, 1901 Carry announces she will no longer smash joints but will wage war through her paper, The Smasher's Mail. Here's a timeline of other temperance activities. 
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