PROHIBITION: Bottles & Barrels

In Chicago, Joe Grein ("Mayor of Randolph Street"), oldtime saloon keeper, is president of the city's Malt Producers Association. From the $20,000 worth of bottles, barrels, hops, malt, caps, cappers, kegs, jugs, rubber hose, filtering paper and flavoring extracts on the shelves of the Grein shop a homebrewer could, until last week, buy everything he needed. Grein's shop, like thousands of others throughout the land, sold everything connected with liquor except the liquor itself.

Last week the Supreme Court, in deciding a case from Pittsburgh, broadened the National Prohibition Act to...

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