Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1920 — Stage Boston Tea Party With Boatload of Beans [ARTICLE]

Stage Boston Tea Party With Boatload of Beans

Like a member of the Boston "Tea Party” but with less pomp and without Ipdlan disguise, a trucker dumped a boatload of snap beans In Mobile bay, at ' Mobile, Ala., because local dealers tried to take away his profits. Arriving aboard the little steamer of Magnolila, the trucker was offered 60 cents a bushel, when the market price was $1.56. Returning to the boat after every deafer in town had refused to offer a higher price, the skipper of the Magnolia tossed his cargo overboard. As the beans floated away, men in small craft put out from shore, grabbed them by the bucketful and, hurrying back, sold them to a waiting line of people at ten cents a quart.