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In Pictures: Prohibition

THE NOBLE EXPERIMENT

CRYING OVER SPILLED BEER A common sight during Prohibition was the police or federal agents taking axes to beer barrels and crates of whiskey bottles or, as seen here, pouring gallon after gallon down the drain.
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