Today is National Bootlegger’s Day

  • Five new signs will welcome visitors to Baxter Springs during the Route 66 century birthday celebration years. Mayor Kelly Abbott told the council each of the cows horns are six foot long. One will be located at Rainbow Bridge.
    Five new signs will welcome visitors to Baxter Springs during the Route 66 century birthday celebration years. Mayor Kelly Abbott told the council each of the cows horns are six foot long. One will be located at Rainbow Bridge.
    National Bootlegger’s Day is January 17, the birthday of infamous bootlegger Al Capone.In the state’s early years, rich soil and wine making traditions brought to the region by European immigrants, Italians in particular, positioned eastern Kansas to rival California’s Wine Country.Instead, from 1881 to 1948, Kansas banned the production, importation, transportation, and sal...

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