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At 12:01 a.m. Friday, April 7, 1933, beer became legal again after 13 long years. The Anheuser-Busch brewery whistles were overwhelmed by the cheers of happy St. Louisans.
American soldiers claimed all of Upper Louisiana for the United States in a two-day ceremony in the village of St. Louis in March 1804.
On Jan. 16, 1919, the Prohibition amendment was passed, making St. Louis and all cities officially dry despite widespread flouting of the law. Gangs like Egan's Rats, Hogan's and the
Trolling through newspaper archives for the good stuff can take months or years. The quirky, the weird, the offbeat is always buried in the backlog,...