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The guide notes that six companies received federal authority to sell medicinal spirits during Prohibition, four of them associated with Louisville-area whiskey businesses and their warehouses.
PDF sheet 45
PDF sheet 44
Chapter 2 — Prohibition survival in Louisville
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Evidence
The guide notes that six companies received federal authority to sell medicinal spirits during Prohibition, four of them associated with Louisville-area whiskey businesses and their warehouses.
Location and context
No access — Chapter 2 — Prohibition survival in Louisville, PDF sheet 44 through PDF sheet 45. PDF-sheet numbering, not print pagination.
Source audit qualification
PDF44–45 names Brown-Forman, Frankfort Distilleries, James Thompson & Bro./Glenmore and A. Ph. Stitzel as the four Louisville companies, with two others in New York. The passage distinguishes authority to sell from a later1928production permission. Do not turn six-company shorthand into six continuously operating distilleries or validated permit history.
Verification
Paraphrase and locator checked against the supplied2016second edition. Source fidelity is separate from independent corroboration; existing status retained.