"Booze was not the issue at all, it was woman suffrage," JR Kane, newly elected mayor of Charlotte, Iowa, claimed in explaining his win in a city election in 1922. Women had won the vote through the 19th amendment to the Constitution.
In 1910 New Market, Iowa, was a bustling community of 673 residents. There was plenty of competition among all the business owners; but when one went missing in the middle of the night in October 1913, everyone came out to search for him.
