Today in New Jersey history:
March 1,1920: Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley testified before a joint committee of the New Jersey state Senate and Assembly considering a bill that would allow the sale of 2.75% alcohol beer as “non-intoxicating” in accordance with the 18th Amendment enforcement law, the Volstead Act. Wiley advised the legislators that 2.75% beer was indeed “intoxicating.” The issue shortly became moot when illegal beer of greater strength became available in speakeasies across the state.
March 1, 1932: Twenty month old Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. was kidnapped from his home in Hopewell, New Jersey between 8 and 10 PM.
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