FARGO — Close your eyes. You can almost picture the conversation on any given day of the Prohibition era. “Hey, Johnny, I need you to run this hooch to the next town. Make it quick and don’t get ...
“Let no one tell you the temperance-prohibition laws cannot be enforced,” Harold “Three-Gun” Wilson, deputy Prohibition administrator for Delaware, announced at a meeting in Seaford of the Sussex ...
Easton had a reputation as a bootlegging town during Prohibition. But the city (briefly) went dry after a massive raid 100 years ago this week. More than 100 federal agents from Philadelphia descended ...
WLWT featured the story of George Remus, a Prohibition-era bootlegger, with insights from UC Law's Christopher Bryant.
ROCHESTER — "Raid Opens Rochester Mayor's War on Rum" screams an April 1925 headline from The Winona Republican-Herald's evening edition. The raid, over five years after the prohibition against ...
A new series of county-sponsored walking tours will distill the history of Arlington’s bootleggers, rum runners, and whiskey raids during Prohibition. The “Bootlegger’s Guide to the Parks” trains its ...
PINE PLAINS, N.Y. – Prohibition was a time of speakeasies, flappers, and ruthless mobsters looking to strike it rich in the illicit alcohol trade. And while much of the history of that time evolves ...
Growing up in the peaceful family-friendly Village of Glenview, Jill Ruschli Crane would hear stories about how different life was in the town in the 1920s and ’30s. Crane shares Glenview’s history ...
Durban - With alcohol and cigarettes banned in South Africa during the lockdown, the Independent on Saturday takes a look at the Prohibition era in the early 20th century and the bootleggers whose ...
AMES, N.Y. — A couple renovating a century-old house in upstate New York came across a find linked to one of the previous owners who was believed to be a Prohibition-era bootlegger -- bottles of ...