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there were laws requiring a 1am closing time on Sunday night. "One waiter was arrested and charged with serving ... a bottle of wine at 1:40 o'clock in the morning."pic.twitter.com/XSPODmJd9m

Anyway, the day-after-new-year celebration wasn't a total losspic.twitter.com/xXvuYVZKFV

This might be one of the best New York Times ledes ever: a bootlegger in 1922 arguing that you don't have to make a no-drinking New Year's resolution because drinking is illegal, so it's ok to keep drinking. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/12/31/102912402.html?pageNumber=32 …pic.twitter.com/2zGcDeTwkH

"it was the spirit of adventure, the gamble, the speculation of it that used to appeal to us. The resolution didn't matter, it was the sporting chance involved in the question, 'can I keep it,' that held out that lure." #DryJanuarypic.twitter.com/kKP1gqOjzw

in 1922, a man in Newark quit the school board because he was sure staying on it would force him to break his new year's resolution not to swear so muchpic.twitter.com/0PUafrHdX6

In 1926, the daughter of the president of Columbia urged women to take a vow against feminism as their new year's resolutionpic.twitter.com/cwxAOkk2AI

in 1934, Mary Pickford resolved for the new year to "treat herself as well as she treats the persons she likes best," and urged housewives to be more "reasonably selfish."pic.twitter.com/5Vdp1PRjXY