NOT ON WATER-WAGGON
“BUT PROHIBITION BEST” NO SYNTHETIC ALCOHOL NEW YORK, April 27. “Are you on the water waggon?” asked reporters of Chauncery Depew, on his 93rd birthday. “No,” shouted the veteran orator; “but nobody gets anything synthetic down my throat while I’m not looking. “1 haven’t smoked for 40 years, but there’s no chance of upsetting prohibition in America. The poorest man is better off to-day than the richest when I was a boy.” Chauncery Depew has been, a conspicuous figure in America for nearly 60 years as politician, business man, and orator.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19827, 29 April 1927, Page 7
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94NOT ON WATER-WAGGON Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19827, 29 April 1927, Page 7
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