There are bills in the Texas state House and Senate that would make the sale of ready-to-drink cocktails and seltzers mixed with distilled spirits available in grocery and convenience stores. Beer, wine and malt liquor that have an alcohol content of 17% or lower can be found on the shelv...
Prior to becoming a drug store in 1893, the building was used as a mercantile-dry goods store, a theater-entertainment house with liquor and cockfights, and as a house for ladies of questionable character. The first pharmacy on this site was Cowen Drug, which opened in 1893. Juan Leal bo...
with one notable exception: vodka. As anger over Russia's invasion of Ukraine reached a fever pitch, the governors of several states ordered state-owned liquor stores to clear their shelves of Russian vodka. But what looked to be a simple, effective way to show solidarity with Ukraine...
In my opinion great loss of life resulted from men and women becoming stupefied by liquor and being too tired and exhausted to get out of the way of fire... The most heartrending sights were witnessed [when] able-bodied men refused to work with the fire department...