Definition: Someone who made their fortune by mining, refining, or selling copper.
•Copper Kings: Back in the late 1800's and early 1920's copper mining was huge. •William Clark, Marcus Daly, Mark Sloan, and F. Augustus Heinz were considered "Copper Kings." •Legit battles were fought in and around Montana over the local copper mining industry.
.Drugstores: •During prohibition the drug store pharmacists were allowed to dispense alcohol for medicinal purposes. •There were strict rules regarding the amount each patient could be given. •Even with those regulations pharmacists made extra money on the side by changing the "books" and selling additional of extra doses.
Tabloids: •Tabloid papers are called tabloids because of their larger and more bold size. •These types of publications were meant for an uneducated, poor, immigrant readership. •Tabloids were also called "tabs." They included advice columns, instructional articles, short stories, and serialized novels.