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Some of the hatchets she used in her saloon-smashing have been donated to the Kansas historical society

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  • She was "The Lady With the Hatchet"
  • Drunk or sober, no one dared call this hatchet-wielding saloon smasher "Old Hatchet-Face"
  • "Faithful to the cause of Prohibition -- she hath done what she could"
  • The proceeds from some of her souvenir hatchets helped fund a home for wives of alcoholics
  • Just hearing the names of her newsletters -- Smasher's Mail & The Hatchet -- makes us cringe
  • In 1899 she began her temperance work in Kansas wielding an umbrella; hatchets came later
  • She was almost 6 feet tall & strong as an ox (she could have smashed saloons without her famous hatchet)
  • Around 1900 in Kansas, she wanted folks to stop drinking, so she began taking a hatchet to local saloons
  • Arrested over 30 times, she paid her fines with profits from selling souvenir hatchets with her name on them
  • It's not me in the photo seen here, it's this determined turn-of-the-century teetotaler
  • Her second husband divorced her, also known as "Old Hatchet Face", soon after she started smashing saloons
  • After she was beaten up by the woman owner of a Montana bar, this crusader never used her hatchet again
  • On Dec. 27, 1900 she staged her 1st big "raid" when she marched on a Wichita saloon & smashed all liquor bottles in reach
  • Her grave in Missouri is inscribed: "Faithful to the cause of Prohibition, she hath done what she could"
  • Seen here, this woman did quite a "smashing" job during her crusade against liquor:
  • Hatchet Hall in Eureka Springs, Arkansas is this famous teetotaler's historic residence
  • A saloon in Kiowa, Kansas became the first target in her many attacks on liquor establishments

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