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Navy Vet Donates Antique Muskets, One over Two Centuries Old, to New York History Center


Navy Vet Donates Antique Muskets, One over Two Centuries Old, to New York History Center
Clay Craighead, in the uniform of an enlisted soldier with the 1st New Jersey Continental Regiment, Continental Army, demonstrates firing a Brown Bess flintlock musket at the Visitor Center Museum at Washington Crossing State Park, N.J., Nov. 6, 2020. (Mark C. Olsen/N.J. Department of Military and Veterans Affairs)
22 Apr 2021
The Daily Star, Oneonta, N.Y.
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Sarah Eames
Fred Hickein, an Oneonta native and veteran of World War II and the Korean War, presented a pair of antique muskets one more than 200 years old to the Greater Oneonta Historical Society on Wednesday, April 21. ....

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The Kidnapping of Schmidt Brewery Son Edward Bremer - Brookston Beer Bulletin


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The Kidnapping of Schmidt Brewery Son Edward Bremer
Today is the anniversary of a pretty unsavory incident that was at least tangentially related to prohibition and brewing. On January 17, 1934, the Barker–Karpis gang kidnapped Edward Brewer off of the streets of St. Paul, Minnesota. At the time, he was the wealthy president of Commercial State Bank. But perhaps more importantly, he was also the son of Adolf Bremer, who owned the Schmidt Brewery, having married the daughter of Jacob Schmidt.
Kidnap victim Edward Bremer.
That’s thought to be important because the gang appeared to be targeting brewery owners because of their perceived disrespecting of criminal elements after prohibition was repealed. Many breweries that survived did so by working with bootleggers on the down low, which of course in many cases were part of criminal organizations. But when prohibition was repealed, they distanced themselves from thos ....

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