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January 13, 1911
Carrie Nation, the temperance advocate famous for being so vehemently against alcohol that she would use a hatchet to smash any place that sold it, made her last temperance speech, at Eureka Springs (Carroll County). Nation, who had spent most of her life in Kentucky, Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma, moved to Eureka Springs because it reminded her of Scotland, which she had recently visited. After stopping her speech and gasping, “I have done what I could,” she fell into a coma and spent her last days in a hospital in Kansas.