Everett Prepares to Go Dry
As the state moves toward local prohibition, Everett faces the closure of all its saloons and the uncertainty of a post-alcohol economy.
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Promptly at 12 o'clock tomorrow night Everett becomes a dry town. The last saloon closes its doors. The cry 'fill 'em up again' will be heard no more. Everett enters on a new era in which King Alcohol will reign no more. Will we really be dry, or will we allow the illicit joint and the blind pig to take the place of the licensed saloon? The Journal was not thoroughly enthusiastic in the movement to close the saloons, but now that a majority of the voters have decreed that the saloon should be abolished as a local institution, this paper will aid in suppressing the blind pig as far as lies in its power.
“Everett enters on a new era in which King Alcohol will reign no more.”
This reflects the volatile landscape of Prohibition in Washington, which officially went statewide years before the Volstead Act. Everett's struggle with illicit 'blind pigs' mirrors the recurring tension between moral reform and the reality of local vice control.
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