A letter bemoaning the booze ban dated July 30, 1921 was discovered in a broken bottle beneath the base of the Queen Victoria statue at the city’s Legislative Assembly offices.
Workers uncorked a rare piece of prohibition history when they found a 101-year-old message in a bottle under a defaced government statue in Manitoba, Canada.
A letter bemoaning the booze ban dated July 30, 1921 was discovered beneath the base of the toppled Queen Victoria statue outside the city’s Legislative Assembly offices,“It says, ‘On account of the Prohibition, we are unable to adhere to the custom of depositing a bottle of brandy under the stone, for which we are extremely sorry,’” government services minister Reg Helwer told the outlet
The century-old note referencing the good fortune tradition was signed by a stonecutter along with Manitoba’s then-deputy minister of public works.Anadolu Agency via Getty Imagesripped off its head and tossed it in the nearby Assiniboine River during a rally over indigenous childrens’ graves.“Apparently there are things of that nature around the legislature. As we move stones, we do discover things like this,” Helwer said.
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