When Whiskey Was Fifty Cents A Gallon In Missouri History
Missouri identity and trade lore recounts whiskey as a grocery item in the 1800s. Distillers and merchants sold whiskey by the drink in taverns and front stores, with early prices from 15 to 40 cents per gallon and a barrelling culture for bankers and farmers. The Franklin distillery produced about 45,000 gallons in 1851-3, while Indians traded ponies for a gallon of whiskey, illustrating pervasive whiskey commerce and social use.
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Missouri
R. B. Price
Columbia
Boon
Kentucky
Old Franklin
Howard County
Thomas Hickman
William Lee
Joel Smith
Potosi
Donald D Parker
Platte County
Parkville
Parker
John A. Baldwin
Missouri River
Police ticket given by Watt and Simak in Seattle case
A Seattle woman received a jay-walking ticket from officers R W Watt and J J Simak last week. She quips that her husband Police Judge James W Hodson warned her, while Hodson states the case will be handled as any other.
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R. W. Watt
J. J. Simak
Seattle
Wash
James W. Hodson
Legal aid offered to armed forces in Missouri
Missouri veterans and service members can access free legal aid through a nationwide program led by the Kansas City Bar Association and USO. Services cover domestic relations debts real estate and other civil issues with fees waived or reduced to fit means. Contact nearest USO. services extend to families and those stationed abroad within Missouri jurisdiction. Also a brief note on child language development, girls ahead of boys by about one month at 18 to 19 months.
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Missouri
Walter A. Raymond
Kansas City Bar Association
Homer A. Cope
War Activities Committee
Albert A. Ridge
Kansas City Council
United Services Organizations, Inc
War
Judge Ridge
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Cope
USO
American Bar Association
Alaska
New Guinea
Italy
Bar
National Family Week Set for May 7 to 14
National Family Week will be observed May 7 through 14 with emphasis on spiritual foundations and family resources. Initiated by religious bodies and social agencies, the effort seeks to safeguard home life amid war-related dislocations and enlisted services, urging community cooperation.
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Harry C. Munro
International Council of Religious Education
Munro
Edgar Schniedeler
Washington, D. C
Catholic Conference On Family Life
Ahron Opher
Synagogue Council of America
New York City
War Time Mood and Childcare Support for Service Families
The passage describes efforts to sustain children of working mothers during wartime, providing care, service, and fellowship with families of servicemen. It emphasizes conserving family interests, supporting men in the armed forces, and readjusting returning service members into family and civilian life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armed Forces
Churchill Intimates Approach of Invasion
In a Sunday broadcast Prime Minister Winston Churchill stated the hour of greatest action was approaching as Allied air forces and the Red Army press the Germans and Japan shows signs of weakness. He noted the United States Air Force in Britain has overtaken and outnumbered the British air force amid the prodigious blows of Allied air power. Most of the talk covered policies of interest to the British Empire.
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Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Red Army
Japan
United States
Churchill
Mr. Churchill
Four Marine Recruits Cost $932 Monthly to Uncle Sam
The Marine Corps recruiting office in Columbia, SC estimates four North Carolina recruits sent to Paris Island for boat training will cost $932 a month in pay and family allowances. The quartet, from four towns, has 33 dependents including 29 children, with two drawing $248 each, one $228 and the fourth $208 monthly.
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Columbia
S. C
Marine Corps Recruiting Office
North Carolina
Paris Island
Sam
Currency Losses in Pacific War Payrolls
Hundreds of thousands of dollars in U S currency were lost in the Pacific during the war as payroll funds aboard ships were sunk. The largest known loss exceeded $400,000 when the U S Cruiser Chicago sank near Guadalcanal in January 1943.
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U. S
Pacific
U S U. S
Chicago
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Januay
Plan Service for Handicapped Veterans
Area managers of the War Manpower Commission from five Southeast Missouri districts met in Cape Girardeau for a week long training course on services to physically handicapped and disabled veterans. Participants included Sikeston staff Paul Kemp Gladys Stewart and James Simmons and others from Flat River Poplar Bluff and Cape Girardeau. Instructor D D MacAdams, state supervisor of special services, emphasized a shift from loss to remaining abilities and the use of practical guides to judge job fitness, with Sikeston serving four counties and coordinating with local offices and services for disabled veterans.
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War Manpower Commission
Missouri
Cape Girardeau
Sikeston
Paul Kemp
Gladys Stewart
James Simmmons
Richard Taylor
James Edmonds
Flat River
Raymond Turner
Ida Krauser
Poplar Bluff
Robert Wilson
Evelyn Neal
D. D. MacAdams
Scott, Stod
Itinerant courthouse schedules posted at county seats
Itinerant schedules are maintained at county seats for efficient service. Benton Courthouse is open Tuesdays 9 30 a m to 3 00 p m Bloomfield on Mondays 9 30 a m to 3 00 p m New Madrid on Thursdays 9 30 a m to 3 00 p m Charleston on Fridays 9 30 a m to 3 00 p m
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Benton
Bloomfield
New Madrid
Charleston
Ambulance Carries 14 After Milk Wagon Collision
Ambulance driver Burr A. Bixler Jr. found no injuries from a milk wagon and street car crash in Atlanta. Despite the disruption, fourteen men and women crowded into the ambulance and rode to work, while bystanders waited at trolley stops.
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Atlanta
Burr A. Bixler Jr
NBS Plans Televised National Conventions After War
NBS chief Niles Trammell says conventions will be filmed and flown to New York for television, with equal status from War and Navy newsreels. A national TV hookup may take five to six years postwar. Britain maintains 77,980 garden plots beside railways tended by road workers. Ocean depth below sea level averages 12,450 feet.
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Hollywood
Cal
Niles Trammell
National Broadcasting Company
New York
Trammell
War
Navy Departments
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State Historical Society of Missouri At
Floyd C. Shoemaker
Stark Bros. Nursery
Neosho Nurseries
Wade Tucker
Bailey & Bailey Attorneys-at-Law
McCoy-Tanner Bldg
Sikeston, MO
George W. Kirk
Applegate Bldg Phone
Public Accountant
Berry Patmor-Day CO
Public Accountants
E. J. Menstedt
Front Street
Howard A. Dunaway
Mc-Coy-Tanner Building
Optometry
W. L Sidwell
O. D
McCoy-Tanner
B. L. McMullin
Stallcup
F. L. Sisson
North Kingshighway
Welsh Funeral Home
Distinctive Service
Sikeston Herald
Plan Service For
NBS
Britain
Missouri Discount Corporation
Keith Building
Bunny
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