The Pottsville Republican newspaper delivered the news to Schuylkill County on January 17, 1920 that nationwide Prohibition had gone into effect at midnight. Read the story.
Prohibition officially arrives in Schuylkill County | January 17, 1920
“Women will vote strong” – Wilkes-Barre women excited to vote in 1920 presidential election
A reporter from the Wilkes-Barre Record interviewed numerous women about suffrage in August 1920.
“Surely I intend to vote” – Pottsville women respond to adoption of the suffrage amendment in 1920
The women of the Schuylkill County seat exhibited some doubts about the newly ratified 19th Amendment in August 1920.