Whisky smugglers navigate fake coast patrols off Florida
An NEA investigator reports the U S S Vidette fails to catch rum runners off the Florida coast as smugglers exploit shallow waters and coves. Enforcement is light with nine agents for 1000 miles of coast, while prices and bootlegging networks widen across Savannah Miami Nassau and the Bahamas.
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Florida
Mi’s
Bahamas
Bemini
Miami
Uet
Savannah
Coffee Bluff
Wilmington Island
Isle of Hope
Warsaw Sound
Ogeechee River
Nassau
Bell
NEA
Booze Vessels Outrun Police In Bahama Trade
Reporters describe millions of gallons of illicit liquor entering the United States from the Bahama Islands under British control. Miami and Savannah are key entry ports with minimal enforcement. officers report low pay and bribery temptations as they struggle to curb rum-running. A Vidette cutter operates near Miami with a small crew and a faulty gun.
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Boosecraft
Tybee
Henry Buchannan
Buchanan
Savannah
Yarmacraw
Georgia
Deviin
Miami
Everglades
Lost Man's Creek
Devlin
Bahamas
Florida
New Orleans
New Jersey
Montauk Point
L. L
Boose
United States
Bahama Islands
Great Britain
Louis C. Deviin
R. &. Miller
Remarkable Tanlac cure praised by New York woman
Mrs. Clara Lehman of Rochester New York describes ten years of nervous indigestion and wasting away to 95 pounds before Tanlac. She credits Tanlac with restoring appetite strength and weight to 108 pounds and says she would not take a thousand dollars for the change. Tamac is sold at Bartell's Seattle drugstores and by leading druggists.
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Tanlac
Tamac
Clara Lehman
Bristol Hotel
Rochester
N. Y
Seattle
Bartell
Mastin’s VITAMON Yeast Vitamin Tablets Promises
Advert reads Mastin s VITAMON as a quick health booster delivering yeast vitamins in tablet form. It claims to strengthen nerves improve energy ease indigestion and constipation while banishing pimples and skin eruptions and building firm flesh and tissue without upsetting the stomach.
Mastin's Vita-Won Yeast Tablets Promoted
An advertisement touts Mastin's Vita-Won as a powerful aid to digestion and relief for chronic constipation. It promises rapid, amazing results with a money back guarantee for weak or run-down individuals and urges readers to buy only the original Vita-Won tablets at drug stores.
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Mastin
OWL Drug
Bootleggers Row Moves From Fourth to Sixth Street
A Seattle Star 1921 item quotes a public feud between a reader and Chief of Police Leslie Quigg. The reader claims Avenue D between 4th and 11th streets is Bootleggers Row, but the chief says the row has been relocated three blocks up to between 6th street and Sith street.
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Leslie Quigg
Avenue D
4Th Street
11Th Street
Chief Quigg
6Th Street
Sith Street
The
Seattic Star
Sunset highway opening celebrated in Issaquah
The opening of the Sunset highway between Issaquah and Renton was celebrated Wednesday in Issaquah with King county officials, Seattle Chamber of Commerce representatives, Renton Commercial Club members and others attending the formal ceremony. Delegates attended a luncheon hosted by the Issaquah Commercial club.
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Issaquah
Renton
King County
Seattle Chamber of Commerce
Renton Commercial Club
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Grunbaum Bros. Furniture Co
People’s Popular Home Furnishers
Harges
Pike
Elliott
Islands
Ceylon
M. J. Brandenstein & Somapany
SMITH
Wall Paper House
Fourth Avenue
New York
Rhodes Co
Davenue and
Union Street
Issaquah-Renton Highway
Audry L. Shannon
Joseph L. Shannon
Eighth Ave. N. EB
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