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No Funds for Enforcement

2/24/2016

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To enforce prohibition when it began in 1920, the government only had the funds to hire 1,520 agents. 

Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2010), 216.
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Barbed Wire's Rapid Rise

2/17/2016

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Barbed wire was invented in 1873, and it became so widely used that in 1880 approximately 80,500,000 pounds of it was made. 

Fon W. Boardman, Jr., America and the Gilded Age: 1876 – 1900 (New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1972), 89.
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Tragic Day for T.R.

2/10/2016

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On February 14, 1884, Theodore Roosevelt’s mother died of typhoid fever, and his wife died of Bright’s disease. 

Candice Millard, The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey (New York: Broadway Books, 2005), 17.
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Consumer Changes

2/3/2016

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By 1915, women were responsible for nearly 90% of consumer spending in the U.S. 

Thomas J. Schlereth, Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), 141.
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