WeekInTime Issue 46: Torches of Freedom
New York City makes it illegal for women to smoke in public in 1908
It was a cold Wednesday in January. A woman struck a match against a stone wall in the Bowery district of New York City and lit her cigarette. Shocked, a nearby police officer approached the woman. “Madam, you mustn’t…what would Alderman Sullivan say?” This week in time, New York City’s Board of Alderman passed the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal …
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