But folks found ways to intoxicate themselves, still
According to the New York Times report from 1860, at the parade organized to
celebrate St. Patrick’s day “there were a great many persons very much
intoxicated”. The reporter carries on to note down that he saw:
“…officers waiting on men and women in all stages of intoxication, from that
balmy condition in which a man swears eternal friendship to all the world, and
is anxious to embrace everyone he meets, to that in which he is unable to walk
without tying knots in his legs, though supported by an official friend on either
side.”
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