Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice

Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice
Author: John Simonson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2018
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1467138711

Like most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizing reformers. But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed, Kansas City had been singled out by one observer as one of the wettest cities, as well as the wickedest. A grocer managed a still in the basement of his store. A raid on the Tingle Oil Company found two hundred drums of oil and the largest illegal brewery ever found in the state. This seedy underworld transformed the Heart of America into the Paris of the Plains. Author John Simonson resurrects forgotten stories by revisiting places where they occurred and telling the salacious history of booze in Kansas City.

Prohibition in Kansas (Classic Reprint)

Prohibition in Kansas (Classic Reprint)
Author: William E. Johnson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2016-06-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781332822423

Excerpt from Prohibition in Kansas The Governor's recommendations were for a revision of the dramshop act, with stringent regulations and with adequate local Option powers to be conferred upon the people. To carry out these recommendations and to combat them, divers bills were introduced by both friends and enemies of the liquor traffic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.