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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Dock Workers' Sugar High


I've been doing research in The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer Gazette, an industry publication published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  I found the following article in the issue published on January 16, 1892.  (Since the report appeared in a Philadelphia newspaper, I presume they got their cheap high while working a ship at the Philadelphia docks.)
  
   

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