LEWES DELAWARE
MACKEREL SELLING WELL
A new business has
developed at Lewes, Delaware , at the Delaware Breakwater, to
overcome the local liquor option. New England fishermen are
supplying the 'dry section' with mackerel, stuffed with your brand
of liquor in pints and half pints. A slogan along the bay front “
Bay a Mackerel and Get A Big Drink” and the business is netting
the fishermen considerable money.
Governor Miller recently
approved an act prohibiting shipments of 'booze' to Kent and
Sussex Counties but the bibulous Lewes residents came to the front
with a plan.
The Yankees on a mackerel
boat from New England laid in a large supply of 'booze' before
reaching the Breakwater and opened a big number of fish and placed
bottles of liquor inside and offered their 'catch' for sale.
The demand for mackerel
soon became known and other off shore fishermen learned of the
'plan' and emulated it.
Source: Oakland Tribune,
Oakland, California, Sunday, June 8, 1913
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