Strange Facts You Maybe Didn’t Know Maybe Don’t Want To Know But Now Know
The Carrie Nation Drinking Fountain Monument
This drinking fountain dedicated to that hatchet wielding prohibitionist, Carry A. Nation, sits in a park at the corner of Douglas and St. Francis in Wichita, Kansas
Normally, at 6 foot tall, 180lb, Mrs Carrie Nation could attract the attention of most who saw her. Even more so, while wielding a hatchet, she was downright skeery. In 1900, Mrs. Nation’s vengeance was the consumption of alcoholic liquors. Mrs. Nation, felt it was her duty to tempestuously promote total abstinence from alcohol. Her short elucidative marriage to an alcoholic, heighten Mrs. Nation’s hatred for alcohol. Kiowa, Kansas was the lucky recipient of Mrs. Nation’s first “calling of destruction in the name of temperance in 1900. Between 1900 and 1910 she was arrested over 30 times for leading a band of followers in the destruction of one water hole after another as she shouted “Smash, ladies, smash!” Even the prize-fighter John L. Sullivan was said to have run and hid when Mrs. Nation burst into his New York City saloon. Self-righteous and formidable, Mrs.Nation mocked her opponents as “rum-soaked, whiskey-swilled, saturn-faced rummies.”
Ironically, the fountain was originally in front of Union Station, but it was moved after being knocked over by a beer truck.
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