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fifteen and twenty gallon stills

“Find 2 Big Stills in Operation” – 1919

August 24, 2017August 24, 2017Jan

Source:  Rockford Daily Register-Gazette  11/18/1919

Addresses, General, Prohibition, Rockford Police Dept. 1919, 2 four-gallon stills, 608 Fifteenth Ave., barrel of mash, fifteen and twenty gallon stills, Find 2 Big Stills, gas company employees kooking for leak, Joe Lonzo's flat, one five gallon keg of liquor, police found steam rising on gas plate, stills being operated on stolen gas

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