LIQUOR-SOAKED TOBACCO

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1922, Page 4

LIQUOR-SOAKED TOBACCO

WAIJKEGAN (111.), 29th April. The entire. structure of Vokteadimn has come crashing down through the cb's- . oovery of an unnamed Waukegan geniaa. ! Officials have noticed recently that inebriety was greatly, on the increase, particularly . among factory. worker*.. Many of these men, who went: to the shops sober in the morning, had to be escorted home at flight after a policeman had pried them loose from the lamp poet. -Throaty'serenades and bfcrbamhbp harmonies k«pt the dogs howling all night; and woke up all the babies. Vigorous search .. of hip pockets . and dinner pails brought.' no .results." No. flasksywarei being : carried. How: ever, Chief of Police .Tyrell, has Alved. thie problem, but. admits1 he is powerless to remedy the «itm»tion. • Th« liquor is there all'right, but, it is not drunk.- It is merely smoked. '• ■ It has been diacorerad that th* new crop of hooch hound* take a liberal pinch of snuff, soak it in ■■mooiwbirie until, "it \b thoronghly saturatedi, then cram it into a pipe, a'little loose tobacco is pressed on top.and the "sandwich" is ready to be,inhaled. N As emaU a quantity M, an ; ounce of moonshine, it is said, wiH impart the desired kick.—The New York World, 27th April, 1922. ' ,' ' .' . ,