Last Joyous Fling at Hub Hotels Ends in Debauch
Boston crowds packed hotels and cafes as Prohibition began at midnight. Celebrants stuffed bags with liquor, danced to jazz, and toasted John Barleycorn with champagne and high prices while police fortified the border and officials issued new sale and storage rules for intoxicants.
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Hub Hotels
John B
Boston
Province Court
Greater
Casey
Collector of
Internal Revenue
Federal Prohibition Commissioner of
36-Hour Wake for John Barleycoin Shocks New York
New York records a 36 hour wake as mourners in hotels and restaurants drink non-prohibition liquor at high prices. Crepe funeral dirges set a somber mood while proprietors look the other way to meet demand before midnight tomorrow.
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New York
Mouquin
Brooklyn
John J. Byrne
King’s County
State Excise Commission
John Barleycoin
Cadet Armory Hosts YD Action Pictures Benefit
More than five hundred members of the old First Corps Cadets and their guests gathered at the Cadet Armory as Captain Edwin H. Cooper official photographer of the 28th Division presented the original scenes of the YD in action for the YD Campaign Club House drive.
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First Corps
Edwin H. Cooper
Reds Working in U S Navy
New York January 15 Agents of the Reds have sought to plant Bolshevik influence in the U S Navy Captain J L P Stone commandant Bay Ridge naval station told a gathering of women supporting a permanent navy club for enlisted men He said sailors were urged to form Soviets and received Bolshevist literature which was found at Bay Ridge and other stations He and other commanders report similar efforts and measures to confiscate literature and question the men
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Reds
United States Navy
J. L. P. Stone
Bay Ridge Naval
Rug Shortage Echoes Sugar Crunch in Household Goods
A comment on how rug shortages mirror sugar scarcity in food supplies, highlighting broader supply chain strain and consumer impact without quoting a source.
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Brunswick
Back Bay
Hotel Brunswick
John Barleycorn
J. C. Prior
Copley7 Plaza
Westminster
Thorndike
Whipple
Touraine
Young’s
Parker’s
Quincy House
Healey's
Harvest Room
Mecca
Andrew J. Casey
William J. McCarthy
John I. Kramer
Washington
Dorchester
New England
New York State
Massachusetts
the Shepard Stores
Winter Street
Epard II Stores OF Shepard Service
Gingham
Luna Lawn
Lana Lawn
Tremont Street
U. S. Navy
Max Margolis
Summit Street
Hyde Park
Armour
P. McKee
Haddock
Tai de
Huron, Ave
Cmbrider
Hervard and Mein
Stephen Sanford
Axminster
Ferraris
Beauvais
Allan Forbes
State Street Trust Co
Billie Burkes
Billie Burke
Chinchilla
Victor
Columbia Records
Library of Records
Aisto
Pardynote OF Shepard Service
Hamburg
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