Professor Hamilton's Diary: Feb. 26, 1935

Baby looks at books; states grapple with post-Prohibition liquor laws

Mary Elizabeth was feeling somewhat better on this Monday. “She is brighter, & sat up & looked at books, while I was with her,” her daddy wrote.

I doubt he had much leisure to loo at the newspaper, but if he had it would have struck him that liquor was consuming almost as many news columns as it did during Prohibition, 1920-1933. National prohibition had…