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PROHIBITION No Beverage Poisoning is a grim, sordid phase of Prohibition. The most rabid anti-salooner would find it hard to vilify a lawbreaker who went shrieking to death with poison scourging his entrails. Last week an epidemic of poison liquor deaths struck Manhattan. John Becak, wagon driver for the Morgue, said he never had such a busy week. During three days 33 persons succumbed. Most of the deaths were caused by wood alcohol. Most of them occurred on the lower east side waterfront. The city police arrested purveyors of a decoction known as "smoke" which sells...
County bank. Later they progressed to Des Moines, to Chicago. Banker Stevens began his career in a Preston (Minn.) wagon factory as a small but husky boy, working overtime to help his mother balance the household accounts. At 20, he embarked for the nearest big city, which happened to be Minneapolis. He worked for the F. H. Peavey Co., who are now the largest grain merchants in the U. S. He became an investment banker. When he was 46, he went to Chicago, as vice president of the old Illinois Trust & Savings Bank. Last year he became president...
...frantic efforts to find her. The Tideboy estate was sold to a Britisher, given to protracted orgies, and his color less, passionate wife. The Britisher fled during a drunken spell, joined the circus in which Phoebe was featured. One guessed at the ending. In his better moments (The Chicken-Wagon Family) Author Benefield has been compared with Barrie, Morley, Donn Byrne...
...Every day some one of my friends announces that he has gone on the wagon. There will always be a certain percentage of drinkers, but their kidneys will carry them...
...inevitable was the Smith nomination, however, that most Democrats of any account were aboard the Smith wagon before the self-starter was depressed. As a result, there was very little "crow-eating" in the Democracy last week...