Putting a kick in the staid old Schuylkill here go a few barrels of beer -- not 1/2 of 1 percent -- into the Schuylkill River. Public Safety Director, Smedley D. "Duckboards" Butler, destroying kegs of beer with an axe, 1924.

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Putting a kick in the staid old Schuylkill here go a few barrels of beer -- not 1/2 of 1 percent -- into the Schuylkill River. Public Safety Director, Smedley D. "Duckboards" Butler, destroying kegs of beer with an axe.

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