Reformers vs Saloon Men
August 20, 2026
El Paso’s 1908 county attorney election unfolded against the backdrop of Texas’s Baskin-McGregor Act, a statewide prohibition measure that sharply restricted saloons by requiring midnight and Sunday closures and banning women bartenders, musical entertainment, gambling, and other vice-related…
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