Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . sh and carry. Bob. And it ainttellin no lie to say that many a swell package was carriedback over the bridge along about sundown. Brick Munro, Perl Galvin, Clay Woodward, Nick New-comb, Jack McPartland, Jocky Manwarning, Heiney Mennen,William Pamperin, and Lee Beauchaine, assisted by ParsonNed Lee, looked after feedin the Bucktown braves on Christ-mas and New Years, and they always got the second helpinwithout astin no questions. John Russell, Lew Hannemann, Fred Abel, Jack Frost,John Schnaack, Nick Boy, Cal Witherspoon, Pat Marinan
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . sh and carry. Bob. And it ainttellin no lie to say that many a swell package was carriedback over the bridge along about sundown. Brick Munro, Perl Galvin, Clay Woodward, Nick New-comb, Jack McPartland, Jocky Manwarning, Heiney Mennen,William Pamperin, and Lee Beauchaine, assisted by ParsonNed Lee, looked after feedin the Bucktown braves on Christ-mas and New Years, and they always got the second helpinwithout astin no questions. John Russell, Lew Hannemann, Fred Abel, Jack Frost,John Schnaack, Nick Boy, Cal Witherspoon, Pat Marinan,Mike Goetsch, Henry Struve, Miles Brubaker, Ernst Wenzel,Pat Stapleton, Fred Wendt, John Masterson, Fred Billipps,Sig Goldstein, Fred Ruhl, Al Moetzel, Dinny Dawney, PeteJacobsen, Orey Janssen, Joe Traeger, George Rohde, AndyGlenn, Fred Muttera, Henry Jaeger, Fred Vogt, Din Har-rigan, Henry Rosencranz, and young Dan Flynn, dished outthe best in the house to all comers on Christmas and NewYears—and mebbe theyd slip you a pint to take home to thewoman. 157. — d THEM WAS THE GOOD OLD DAYS Why, when the big brewery guys, Henry Frahm, GeorgeMengel, Oscar Koehler, CharHe and Ernst Zoller, and BoreKoester, made the rounds, they could set em up to thehouse for a five-case note. And now what do you get for a five-caser? You meetsome slimey bootlegger in a dark doorway and slip him afive-spot for a pint of white mule that would make a rabbitspit at a lion. Then you take a shot in the arm and getgoggle-eyed and fightin mad. And then you have the williesand come near croakin, and while youre moanin Neveragain! youre offa prohibition. Take these hopheads that are up against the snow, forinstance. Why them birds, bein mostly nuts, is so nervousthey cant read, nor work, nor do nothin to ease the bugsthat is bitin inside their noodles. Thats where this strong-arm stuff comes in, and the flydicks knows it. When themthere nobody-home guys gets illuminatedwith the snow, and hittin on all six
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