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Looking Back: Dec. 26, 2012

125 YEARS AGO

December 28, 1887
Considerable stir has been caused in Chicago by Kelley Brewing Company instructing its brokers to buy no barley grown in or shipped from Iowa or Kansas. The farmers there are hypocrites, millionaire maltster Louis Huck declared, claiming to believe in prohibition, while raising barley for whiskey and beer.

Deerfield Prairie will hereafter be known by the name of Esmond.

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