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Butcher, Irene - Interview and Memoir

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Butcher, Springfield businesswoman and owner of the Butcher Tavern, discusses Springfield in the early 1900's: its citizens and businesses, downtown, changes from rural to urban atmosphere, prohibition, race relations, and the Chinese regiment at Camp Lincoln during WWII. Also discusses her father's work as a coal miner in Pennsylvania and his role as co-founder of the United Mine Workers in that state, John F. Kennedy's assassination, the Americ...
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Keywords

  1. Assassination
  2. Bars (Drinking Establishments)
  3. Camp Lincoln, Springfield (Ill.)
  4. Coal Mines And Mining
  5. Homefront
  6. Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (President, U.S., 1961 1963)
  7. Prohibition
  8. Small Business
  9. Social Life
  10. Springfield (Ill.)
  11. United Mine Workers (Umw)
  12. World War, 1939 1945

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