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The cracked jug
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The cracked jug / by "Neighbor Smith" ; printed in 1838 for the author ; re-printed in 1911 with an introduction by George C. Dempsey and submitted to the legislative committee on liquor laws with an argument for the repeal of the so-called "bar and bottle" law.
Publication
[Boston?] : [publisher not identified], 1911.
Physical Description
1 online resource (16 pages).
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Reply of Moses Williams, Boston wine merchant, to Samuel G. Goodrich's pamphlet "Five letters to my neighbor Smith" concerning the passage of the liquor license law (i.e., the fifteen gallon jug) by the Massachusetts legislature.
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Reprinted from: The cracked jug, or, Five answers to my neighbor Parley's five letters, cracking his "fifteen gallon jug," with a preface and a congratulation / by "Neighbor Smith." Boston : Printed for the author, 1838. Third edition.
Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
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Language
English
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April 28, 2017
Series
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
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