As it is Election Day, many a voter will be spared those political mailers and assorted material. The above envelope contained a simple political viewpoint while still serve its functional purpose. In this instant the letter writer, C.W. Pogue was affiliated with the local Methodist church. Since the early 1900s there was a movement to ban alcohol in California, with numerous attempts at the ballot box that failed. The issue would soon be moot with the passage of the Volstead Act, i.e., national prohibition.

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