Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual line of business was a case brought to the Bureau recently involving a serving maid and a five dollar bottle of whiskey. The girl worked for a family in Newton. Around Christmas time she asked her employer for a bottle of grade-A whiskey to send to her folks for a present...
Died. Andrew Jameson, 85, pink-cheeked, buffalo-hunting chairman of John Jameson & Son, Ltd., makers of Irish whiskey; in Dublin. "I was reared on Jameson's whiskey," he once observed...
...Wisconsin birds, likes to make jackknives, translates poetry from French, German, Norwegian and Hebrew, writes poetry himself. Besides a workmanlike landscape and a portrait of a worried raccoon, Farmer Sugden sent in six bottle paintings, which he made by patiently poking bits of colored sand into place in old whiskey bottles with the aid of a hatpin. Experts pronounced Sugden's sand paintings equal to the best of their kind produced by the Hopi Indians of the southwest U. S. Farmer Sugden was not at the show. A man of rural tastes, he farms the land he was brought...
...tops of garbage cans. But there are seldom enough covers for all the bombs, so everybody is now familiar with the second method, which is to smother them with sand and then spray them with a hand pump attached to a water bucket. A third fairly effective method for whiskey drinkers is to spray the bomb with a soda-water siphon. Fourth and most dangerous method, about to be demonstrated by the woman in the picture below, is to pick up the fin end of the bomb, whack it sharply on the ground and decapitate it. It takes about three...
...more disturbing character was Fern's uncle, a druggist who scandalized her and the "Reverent Mr. Dotson" by selling whiskey to town drunks. This unethical druggist kept a curious machine on his tobacco counter which Fern feared was unethical...