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Lost Lansing: Michigan once put people in prison for life for possessing alcohol

Lost Lansing: Michigan once put people in prison for life for possessing alcohol

By David Votta on December 27, 2010

Etta Mae Miller’s life sentence for a fourth conviction for a pint of booze was eventually overturned.

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Lansing Online News Radio tonight on Prohibition

Lansing Online News Radio tonight on Prohibition

By Bill Castanier on June 20, 2010

Prohibition hits a political nerve (WLNZ 89.7 tonight at 7 p.m. with Judge William Whitbeck and Bob Garrett)

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Lost Lansing: When Lansing was dry!

Lost Lansing: When Lansing was dry!

By David Votta on June 9, 2010

Ingham County voted to go dry almost a decade before Prohibition became the law of the land.

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