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Brooklyn Today
Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 236th day of the year.
ON THIS DAY IN 1930, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Druggist Gets Year for Fake Liquor Permits.”
The article focused on two Brooklyn drug clerks who were convicted of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law by selling liquor at their drug store under prescriptions illegally issued by eight Brooklyn physicians.
“The physicians, who testified as government witnesses, to issuing fake prescription to the drug store pleaded guilty Monday to violating their permits, a misdemeanor,” the Eagle reported.