Sometimes old news is just as fascinating.

[Rum Runner]

I just came across this archived piece from September, 1922 in the New York Times, reporting a most civil meeting between the Master of a schooner full of hooch and the Captain of a "Dry Navy" ship just outside the legal limits of the Federal Government's reach. Find the article here. (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A04E6D71139EF3ABC4C51DFBF668389 639EDE)

I wonder if the schooner Master offered the good Captain Tawes a tot?

[Edward Hamilton]

You have to love the way contraband is valued. And then there's always someone going to the police after being robbed of his contraband.

History repeats, repeats itself.

[Rum Runner]

And then there's always someone going to the police after being robbed of his contraband.

I loved that part also..a good lesson in how not to succeed in contraband.