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Title
Prohibition raid on East Ludington Street hill
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Prohibition

Item Number
AF01a016

Relation
Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3

Description
Photograph of wine barrels confiscated in a raid during the Prohibition Era. Assisting in the ""pouring"" of the barrels were John C. Eslick, Police Chief Peter Carlevato and cub reporter for the Iron Mountain News Lawrence D. Tucker.

Prohibition raid on East Ludington Street hill

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