[Ads-l] New England boot-leg rum. Is this relevant?

[Stephen Goranson]

Warren, R.I., Saturday Morning, October 9, 1930.
Northern Star, and Farmers’ and Mechanic’s Advocate. 1/2. Newspapers.com
[apostrophes, sic]

Rum better for the feet than the head.–
During the revolutionary war a privateer
was wrecked in a violent snow storm, near
Martha’s Vineyard. A hogshead of run [rum]
was saved and divided among 114 persons,
who composed her crew, ninety eight of
whom drank freely thereof and all perish-
d. The other sixteen wholly refrained
[f]rom the internal use of it, but soaked their
[f]eet and legs in rum by turning it into their
boots, and they all survived the storm.


sg

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