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[PROHIBITION]. Chicago Herald Examiner. 28th Year, No. 104. September 7, 1918. 10 folio pages on folded sheets. Each page approximately 550 x 460 mm. Toned, chipped, with marginal tears, disbound. Library inkstamp on p. 1 at masthead. On p. 1: “U. S. Prohibits Beer / All Brewing to End Dec. 1 by Order of President / Heads of Fuel, Railroad and Food Administrators Urge Drastic Step. / Senate Votes the Dry Bill / Attempt to Delay Country-Wide Prohibition Till 1920 Fails in the Upper House.” This was passed as an emergency measure to conserve grain for the war effort, but it became an important first step for the 18th Amendment, which would be ratified on January 16, 1919, and Prohibition began a year later. Perhaps it is a bit ironic that this newspaper is from Chicago, where some of the biggest and most dangerous bootlegging gangs were headquartered, all of whom became rich and powerful due to Prohibition (a tribute to the “unintended consequences of history.”)