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    612-822-4611

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Baltimore Prohibition: Wet and Dry in the Free State

Baltimore Prohibition: Wet and Dry in the Free State

Walsh, Michael T.

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralRegional: Middle AtlanticTrue Crime

Publisher Price: $31.99

ISBN10: 1540227634
ISBN13: 9781540227638
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Published: Dec 11 2017
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
There was perhaps no region more opposed to Prohibition than Baltimore and Maryland. The Free State was defiant in its protest from thoroughly wet Governor Albert Ritchie to esteemed Catholic Cardinal James Gibbons. Maryland was the only state to not pass a baby Volstead enforcement act. Speakeasies emerged at Frostburg's Gunter Hotel and at Baltimore's famed Belvedere Hotel, whose famous owls' blinking eyes would notify its patrons if it was safe to indulge in bootleg liquor. Rumrunners were frequent on the Chesapeake Bay as bootleggers populated the city streets. Journalist H.L. Mencken, known as the Sage of Baltimore, drew national attention criticizing the new law. Author Michael T. Walsh presents this colorful history.

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