Coming up on the election of 1920, Republican Warren G. Harding was opposing Democrat James Cox for the office of president, with the two major issues being prohibition of alcohol and whether the U.S. should join the League of Nations. There was a major wild card: For the first time, all American women would be eligible to vote.
In 1920, there was no monolithic media addressing the nation as a whole, but hundreds of local newspapers covering national issues At the time, Ocean County had two…
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