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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/17/26 – DODGE CITY DAY!

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Get out of Dodge! That was sound advice in the wild 1880s, when cowboys, money, whiskey and women turned many a drunken Spring Break into a fatal shootout, so today we mark NATIONAL DODGE CITY DAY! This is the 155th Anniversary of Dodge City’s first saloon opening, when George M. Hoover began selling whiskey to […]

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 4/6/26 – NEW BEER’S EVE!

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4 ‘Twas goodbye Prohibition And all the through the nation The whistles were whetted For potent libations That’s why we call April 6 NEW BEER’S EVE! For those of you keeping score at home, these days are not the first time America went nuts. For 13 long years, the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was

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