Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NOVEMBER-Main Event. In Port Angeles, Wash., the state liquor board ordered the M & C Tavern to remove a sign hanging on the bar: "We don't have TV here, but we have a fight every night...
Drought Relief. In Adel, Iowa, when city officials ordered local tavern operators not to sell him beer, Ivan Gowin sued the city for $25,000 because he had been unable to relieve his "exhausted and dehydrated condition...
Main Event. In Port Angeles, Wash., the state liquor board ordered the M & C Tavern to remove a sign hanging on the bar: "We don't have TV here, but we have a fight every night...
...about a year and a half ago, several Hunt students showed up drunk after an evening in town. Immediately the Judge began a campaign to end the sale of liquor to minors, and he was very good at it. As a result of police raids which closed one tavern and scared the managers of all the others, it is quite difficult to get a drink in Princeton without at least 21 years of experience...
...tavern keepers and package store men are wary of selling their goods to any but dottards, and if they think a prospective buyer does not measure up to the age on his draft card, they may demand further proof of the card's age and character. Some dealers have even bought the Freshman registers, which contain pictures and birth dates of all students...