Paul Rose Facing Charge for Snake Bite Remedy, Nov. 12, 1920

Paul Rose, colored, is in a world of trouble. Paul conducts a pressing club and Chief Griffin found a quart bottle full and a half gallon fruit jar containing about a pint of snake bite medicine in Paul's shop Saturday night. It being too late int he season for snake the chief couldn't exactly understand the "whyforeness of the whichness" and he therefore had Paul placed under $500 bond for his appearance before the powers that be where an explanation of the peculiar circumstance over the pressing club could be asked for. Of course the snake bite remedy didn't belong to Paul. It was left in there by another colored man whose name the propiretor of the shop wasn't in possession of and who had just stopped down the street for a few minutes and was going to return within a short time and give Paul a drink. But the chief was on the job a little too early and pressing club man, after missing his drink, suffered the embarassment of being placed under bond, charged with having more liquor on hand than the law allowed on the outside of his shirt. (From the front page of the Monroe Journal, Nov. 12, 1920)