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...Declaring that distillers were gouging the public, Representative John Joseph Cochran of St. Louis, where Cozy Corner used to sell for 98? a quart, indignantly announced: "Seven dollars a quart for whiskey, no matter how old, is outrageous! Chemists of the Bureau of Industrial Alcohol advise me that the best whiskey available today did not cost more than 50? a gallon to make." He advised a drinkers' strike...
Boston maintained the New England rum tradition by popularizing Spanish Main ($3 a pint) and New England ($2.75). Old James E. Pepper bourbon cost $3.25 a pint. A Great Western champagne sold for $3.50 a quart...
...first opportunity along those lines. After a brief stay there, I obtained a job in Detroit, Michigan, where I remained for several years. In 1898 I came to the Parker House and I have been here ever since. Back in the '90s, two cocktails cost a quarter and a quart of the best whiskey sold for .75. The present-day prices, although not as cheap as that, are still reasonable. The cocktails cost as follows: Martini .25, Manhattan .30, Bronx .25, Clover Club .35, Old Fashioned .35, Orange Blossom .30, Champagne .75; the prices of the punches and miscellaneous mixed...
...yelling has subsided, the rosy mists which surrounded Repeal are drifting away revealing the highly unpleasant fact that liquor prices are exorbitantly high and in some cases prohibitive. Despite the unctuous announcement of the distillers that they would have an abundance of whiskey on the market at $1.50 a quart, the cheapest blended whiskey obtainable costs $2.75 and the uncut variety runs from $5.00 to $8.00. Even more outrageous than the prices of hard liquors are those charged for wine. Domestic wines sell for about $1.50 a quart, while the imported product is considered cheap at $3.00; served...
...make people return to the bootlegger, who will now cut his prices even more. The average college student, for example, is not, and indeed cannot, pay $1.50 for a fifth of gin, when he can buy alcohol for $4.00 a gallon, thereby making his own gin for $.40 a quart. Worse still, all efforts to make America into a wine drinking country will certainly fail dismally when such enormously high prices are levied; those who mours the hard liquor propensities of Americans should consider the fact that in France, the country which they generally set up as a model...