Blast From The Past

[El Presidente]

http://www.hutchnews.com/Localregional/yne...-12-20T20-54-59

1909

A ban on selling Havana cigars on the Sabbath meant Hutchinson smokers would have to shop a day earlier. Chief of Police Hern announced that pool halls that kept the front of their places open to sell cigars and tobacco on Sundays had no legal right to do so. He sent a notice to pool hall men that a turned key in the front-door lock on Sundays would keep them out of trouble. Cigars could be bought on Saturdays just as well as butter and eggs, and the need for butter and eggs was much more important. The order had been announced before but was ignored; that would no longer be the case, Hern said.

[Tampa1257]

Smoking Nazi's even way back in 1909!

[gfoster]

Ok, that's just creepy... Hutchinson KS is my hometown (seriously). How the hell did you stumble across that?

-- Gary F.