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I just had to post this notice from the October 1917 News — it represents probably the last time William F. Wollenberg, Sr. will ever renew his liquor license for the Ainsworth saloon, and perhaps even the last time anyone got a liquor license for an Ainsworth saloon, since I'm not sure whether Ainsworth ever had a saloon again after Repeal.
At this point we have only half a year until Indiana's state-wide prohibition law goes into effect. Perhaps somewhere deep in his heart, Will Sr. was cherishing a hope that the law might still be challenged, as the women's suffrage law had been.
Source: "Notice to the Citizens of the Town of Ainsworth, in the Township of Ross, County of Lake and State of Indiana." Hobart News 11 Oct. 1917.
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