Family recollections are attributed oral testimony; dramatic ice-explosion or floating-bottle details are not verified events or physics. Separate the January 16 last-night context from the effective date. Reject the blanket claim that Prohibition created cocktails to hide bad liquor or introduced women to drinking.
Don Cazentre, Spirits & Cocktails of Upstate New York: A History (2017). Supplied ebook PDF positions, not print-page numbers.
Borderlands recollections, local historians and business stories describe smuggling, speakeasies, pharmacies, enforcement and later tourism in Buffalo, Albany, Syracuse and the Thousand Islands.
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Prohibition recollection and uneven enforcement
September 29 audit: all 227 main-text pages read, every page visually surveyed and 20 details enlarged. Source remains Partial Source for cropped PDF186 menu and partly illegible embedded fine print. This entry's paraphrase and locator were rechecked; historical corroboration, recipe testing, native-byte and browser verification are separate.
No access / Whiskey Excerpts Database (USWA)
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Evidence
Borderlands recollections, local historians and business stories describe smuggling, speakeasies, pharmacies, enforcement and later tourism in Buffalo, Albany, Syracuse and the Thousand Islands.
Location and context
No access, PDF 157–168; Prohibition recollection and uneven enforcement. Supplied ebook PDF positions, not print pagination. Full analysis 
Annotation
Family recollections are attributed oral testimony; dramatic ice-explosion or floating-bottle details are not verified events or physics. Separate the January 16 last-night context from the effective date. Reject the blanket claim that Prohibition created cocktails to hide bad liquor or introduced women to drinking.
Verification checklist
Verified means source fidelity only. Publication claims and practical tests remain separate.