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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Bank Holiday

October 28, 1969, Neenah-Menasha Daily Northwestern
This is the second of that series of articles I promised which detail Neenah-Menasha's response to the stock market crash of 1929 and the resultant Great Depression.  I found it humorous that in the midst of all this with Prohibition ending, Wisconsin outlawed the word "saloon" in favor of "tavern."  Without looking it up, I can only imagine it was designed to rid the memory of the anti-saloon sentiments conjured up which created Prohibition in the first place.  The word "tavern" is associated with food, so this may have been a more agreeable compromise to get the industry back on its feet.

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