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Show 'BOSTON REVIVES OLD CUSTOM OF SNUFF SNUFFING BOSTON. Dc, 1 The cup ( that cheers was replaced by the muff that exhilarates when the Scots Charitable society revived re-vived an old custom at its annual an-nual banquet last night to t.w the place of ante prohibition toasts. Scotch snufl from sil ver mounted ram's horn was passed about the tables First to take a cautious pinch was Governor Culvin Coolidge, vice president-elect, who was the chief guest From him the horn went down the banquet board Sneezes followed Soon afterward Professor Charlton Black, of Boston university, uni-versity, related an anecdote di-1 reeled to despondent victims of the eighteenth amendment. It was the warning of an old Scotchman to his son against too liberal use of snuff, with the statement that I've been drunker on sneezum than I ever was on whuskey." |