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Grant Closes the Rum-Shops

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 5, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 1.

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Grant Closes the Rum-Shops

At the close of the late civil war a grand review of the Union army took place in Washington. About two hundred thousand soldiers were in the city, and probably as many more residents and visitors. Notwithstanding this immense crowd the two review days were unusually quiet. Why? Because Gen. Grant ordered all rum-shops to be closed during those two days and the prohibition was enforced.—Liberator.