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      Guns, Terrapin and Milk Punch: How New Yorkers Celebrated New Year’s Before the Ball Drop

      Back in the day, some local revelers celebrated New Year’s by “going from House to House with Guns and other Fire Arms, and being often intoxicated with Liquor.”

      December 31, 2015   |   By Meryle Evans, Andrew F. Smith, and Cathy K. Kaufman
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