Thursday, August 22, 2019

Grocery Store's Flour Platform Hid 165 Pints of Blockade Whiskey, Aug. 22, 1919

From Roanoke Rapids Herald, Aug. 22, 1919

Grocery Camouflaged

A nicely constructed platform for the storage of flour in Lignell W. Hood’s grocery store did not mean anything unusual to customers but an investigation by revenue officers revealed that it was used as a hiding place for whiskey. A search of the interior of the platform rewarded the officers with a find of 165 pints of blockade whiskey.

The proprietor had nothing to say regarding this untoward occurrence.

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