Drunkenness On Increase In Bay State

A crowd at a bar, photo circa 1920's

Boston, Aug. 20.—(AP)—An Increase in the number of arrests for drunkenness in Boston during the eight months following December 1, last was revealed in police statistics today. The number was 25,385 as compared with 24,130 during the corresponding period of the previous year. The total number of arrests decreased from 53,471 to 52,451.

Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME, August 21, 1926