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 ...
The word Prohibition often conjures up the images of gangsters in three-piece suits, Ford Model T cars, jazz music blaring in glamorous speakeasies, and Al Capone. It's a fascinating time in American ...
“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 ...
John M. Gastman, president of the Windber Brewing Co. at the time, pleaded guilty to violating the National Prohibition Act ...
December marks the 90th anniversary of the end of prohibition. It’s an era of history riddled with larger-than-life characters — people like Lucky Luciano in New York and Al Capone in Chicago. In the ...
Before whiskey -- the first distillations -- Tough Irish women -- Early Scotch whiskey women -- Early American women -- The targeted and early marketers -- Temperance women -- Women moonshiners and ...
During Prohibition, bootlegging was big business in this corner of Northeast Florida, and moonshine stills were hidden all over, from the thickets of Palm Valley to the wilds of Clay County, from ...