Word: kasaczun
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...Father Kasaczun, a parish priest of Sugar Notch in the Pennsylvania anthracite district, had previously given the most lurid account of the alcoholism of this era. Stills, he said, were to be found, in at least one out of every five homes. Parents got drunk in the presence of their children. Wives who tended the stills ended by running away with the "star-boarder." Young girls demanded that their boy friends provide liquor on auto parties, so that immorality at tender ages was prevalent. Once the priest heard a child of three pleading, "Mamma, moonshine...
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