Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Chief Askew's Diary: April 2, 1930

Chief Askew's Diary: April 2, 1930

He gives a weather report; doctors call alcohol a 'necessity'

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On this cloudy and warm Tuesday, Chief Askew didn’t have anything more pressing to write about than the weather. “Began raining about the middle of the morning and rained slowly off and on the rest of the day,” he wrote.

Today’s New York Times contained numerous stories about the war on alcohol, including a plea by New York doctors not to restrict their …

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