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Business: Rum Rush

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Not since President Harrison flung open the Oklahoma Indian Territory has the U. S. seen anything like what it will see next week when Prohibition is stricken from the Constitution. On that April morning in 1889 a surging column of men on foot, men on horseback, men in buggies, buckboards, dump-carts, whole families in covered wagons stretched across the prairie in a straight line. Men fought and cursed and jockeyed for a front position behind Federal troopers. At noon a bugle blast split the air. On to the old Indian lands...

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