History may not be poetic, but boy does it rhyme.
Following: 8 pages of an article written by an NYC doctor during the peak of the gov't alcohol poisonings of the Prohibition era.
If this quote isn't enough to whet your appetite, I don't know what is.
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Below is pretty much the rallying cry of #TeamReality
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Now for the whole article. Page 1.
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Page 8. Final page of "Our Essay in Extermination"
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Wherein we see the craven defense, at the end of the article. unz.com/print/Literary…
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The article above, where president coolidge has asks them to use less poisonous poison, comes b/c his act to force Alcohol manufacturers to use STRONGER poisons had just gone into effect.
~10K died b/n 1926 and 1933. That would be ~35K now.
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