Home Alliance

Home Alliance
Typeweekly newspaper
OwnerSarah Huston
Founders
PublisherSarah Huston
Editor-in-chief
Sarah Huston
FoundedJuly 7, 1891
CityWoodland, California
CountryU.S.

The Home Alliance was an American weekly newspaper, established on July 7, 1891, and published in Woodland, California. A Yolo County weekly[1] it was devoted to prohibition and woman's suffrage.[2] It was owned and operated by Sarah Huston for thirty-five years.[3] Initially, it was the only publication in California that fought the legalized liquor traffic.[4]

History

In 1891, as press superintendent for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), it became Huston's duty to plan and work for a temperance paper entirely devoted to WCTU work. At that time, there were 30 licensed saloons, two wineries, one brewery, and a commercialized vice district in Woodland. In face of such opposition, it seemed like such a big undertaking that had it not been for encouragement and financial assistance by W. A. Gardner, then pastor of the Woodland Christian Church, Huston may not have had the courage to continue.[4] Through the further efforts of other citizens, a printing plant was purchased and The Home Alliance, issued. It was founded by Huston and her aunt, Emma C. Laugenour, on July 7, 1891.[5]

The mechanical work was done the first year by William Kehoe, and afterwards, until October 1894, by Lee & Warren. At the latter date, Laugenour purchased a printing plant and established the paper in its quarters on First street, opposite the city hall.[6]

In 1905, the printing plant and the building in which it is located became the property of the Woodland WCTU. The building contained The Home Alliance office and Christine Parlors, used for WCTU headquarters.[6]

In 1909, The California Weekly stated that The Home Alliance was "... perhaps the oldest strictly local paper in the state which has made the fighting of the saloons the principal object of its existence."[7]

In 1914, the editor of The Home Alliance gave the exact number of California's dry towns as 682.[8]

Scope

The Home Alliance was devoted to home protection and waged unceasing warfare on saloons in general and Yolo county saloons in particular. It was a factor in the banishment of saloons from Capay Valley, Esparto and Winters, and in the reduction in the number and power of saloons throughout the county. While owned by women and edited and published by a woman, The Home Alliance has many male friends and some of its contributors were prominent lawyers and prohibitionists of Woodland.[6]

The Woodland Daily Democrat characterized it as "probably California's best known weekly devoted to the cause of Prohibition."[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Passing of "Aunt Sally" Huston A Blow To Yolo And Journalism". Appeal-Democrat (Public domain ed.). 27 August 1926. p. 2. Retrieved 5 August 2026 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ↑ Leonard, John William, ed. (1914). Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-l9l5 (Public domain ed.). American Commonwealth Company. p. 418. Retrieved 5 August 2026.
  3. 1 2 "Walter Scott Huston". Woodland Daily Democrat (Public domain ed.). 8 September 1894. p. 3. Retrieved 5 August 2026 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  4. 1 2 ""Aunt Sally" Huston Signally Honored". Woodland Daily Democrat (Public domain ed.). 10 July 1925. p. 1. Retrieved 5 August 2026 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  5. ↑ "Gone to Reward. Aunt Sally Huston Dies (Continued from Page One)". Woodland Daily Democrat (Public domain ed.). 24 August 1926. p. 5. Retrieved 5 August 2026 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  6. 1 2 3 Guinn, James Miller (1906). History of the State of California and Biographical Record of the Sacramento Valley, California: An Historical Study of the State's Marvelous Growth from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (Public domain ed.). Chapman. p. 1546. Retrieved 5 August 2026.
  7. ↑ "Up And Down The State". The California Weekly. 1 (33). California Weekly, Incorporated: 520. 9 July 1909. Retrieved 5 August 2026.
  8. ↑ Blackwell, Alice Stone (1914). "SUFFRAGE AND TEMPERANCE". In United States Congress House Committee on Rules (ed.). Hearing Before the Committee on Rules, House of Representatives, Sixty-third Congress, Second Session, on Resolution Establishing a Committee on Woman Suffrage: December 3, 4, & 5, 1913 (Public domain ed.). U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 165. Retrieved 5 August 2026.
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