Reported venue counts and workers’ drinking rates are attributed historical estimates, not unqualified census facts. Historic medicinal beliefs and jigger-boss rations are not health guidance. Modern canal-themed cocktails were commissioned for this book.
Don Cazentre, Spirits & Cocktails of Upstate New York: A History (2017). Supplied ebook PDF positions, not print-page numbers.
The canal account connects grain disposal, portable spirits, westward markets, work rations, temperance advocacy and nineteenth-century drinking places.
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Erie Canal whiskey and work
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Evidence
The canal account connects grain disposal, portable spirits, westward markets, work rations, temperance advocacy and nineteenth-century drinking places.
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Annotation
Reported venue counts and workers’ drinking rates are attributed historical estimates, not unqualified census facts. Historic medicinal beliefs and jigger-boss rations are not health guidance. Modern canal-themed cocktails were commissioned for this book.
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