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Kansas Citizens wrote to prospective visitors and warned that the local law makes it jail offense to possess one quart of intoxicant. They also warned against conventioneering bootleggers, whose stock-in-trade this year is murderously "cut" and atrociously priced. The alternative suggested was to trust to personal Kansas City hospitality, for corn abounds there and it was from corn that mellow bourbon whisky used to be made...
...Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, for 36 years medical missionary to Labrador fishermen, toured the U. S., took notes, then told a Montreal audience of his findings: "Whiskey is $10 a quart in Chicago. ... It is said that prohibition has been a failure in New York but I learned that societies which used to care for neglected children have closed their doors for want of something to do. Prohibition is the best thing that ever struck...
Panama facing a pretty girl and a cold quart of wine...
...rich citizen and then take six simple steps: 1) offer him a drink out of a bottle of real "Old Parr" whiskey; 2) assure him that many another bottle of "Old Parr" whiskey, smuggled in on Pullman trips from Canada, could be secured at $6 for each quart bottle; 3) meet the rich citizen at an appointed place; 4) deposit in his automobile four cases of real old shoes, bricks, rocks, broken glass and garbage; 5) take from his hand $285 in payment thereof; 6) vanish...
Doorman John Healy comes to work Sunday morning bringing a partly finished bottle of whiskey. He greets his colleague, George Tiernan, nightman, with the suggestion that they "kill the quart" before Mr. Tiernan goes home. They are bosom friends and two hours pass pleasantly while they rehash what has been their favorite conversational topic since the Lihmes left town, namely, the stinginess of "The Old Swede's" (Mr. Lihme's) tips and the indisputable right, the incontrovertible necessity of two fine Irish elevator men to get an increase...