Feature Essay: Medicinal Alcohol
One of the infamous loopholes in the Prohibition law, it kept folks lubricated
I was visiting friends in Atlanta last weekend when my host, Toby Raper, mentioned he had a pint bottle Prohibition-era “medicinal alcohol.” It was carefully stored away in its original cardboard box, and once he got it unwrapped, this is what we saw:
According to an article in the New York Times on November 24, 1927, seven distilleries which held a larg…
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