Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1915 — NOVEL COVERING FOR BOOZE [ARTICLE]

NOVEL COVERING FOR BOOZE

Typewriter Covers Conceal Whisky Shipped to Citizens In Legally Dry West Virginia. Fairmont, W. Va. —The mystery of the enormous number of typewriters carried on Baltimore & Ohio railroad trains from Oakland, Md., and Point Marion, Pa., to this city, has been solved. It looked like the typewriter business had taken on a great impetus, but now the secret is out. Typewriter covers merely were used as a covering for booze brought into the state. No one suspected anything when a few men began using the covers, but when the number grew so large the secret was exploded.