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L. V. D. Tosh, a druggist in Osage City, writes to Governor John A. Martin in Topeka asking for a clarification of the alcohol prohibition law as recently amended. Tosh asks whether a druggist can sell alcohol to a customer who provides a written statement that it is for medical, mechanical, or scientific purposes or whether a customer must have a prescription.
Date: March 12, 1885
Item Number: 214017
Call Number: Governor's Office, Martin, Box 28, Folder 5
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 214017
Business and Industry - Health care - Pharmacies
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Pharmacists
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Politicians
Business and Industry - Retail - Drugstores
Collections - State Archives - Governor's Records - Martin, John Alexander
Date - 1880s - 1885
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Prohibition and temperance
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Martin, John Alexander
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Martin, John Alexander, 1839-1889
Places - Cities and towns - Osage City
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Osage
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917
Thematic Time Period - Cattle Drives, 1867 - 1885
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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