Company advertising shows their address as "1529 Morse Block". 1529 Genesee (address above) was the home of the huge J Rieger & Co. mail-order business: maybe they were one and the same company operating under two different guises?
The company used the brand names: "Camp Creek", "Cane Valley", "Clarke's Sour Mash", "Flag Staff", "Gilt Edge", "Grand Fork", "Guckenheimer", "Meadow Farm", "Mineral Springs", "Old McBrayer", "Prairie Rose", "Riley's King Whiskey", "Riley's No. 10", "Riley's No. 12", "Riley's No. 15", "Riley's No. 20", "Riley's Sour Mash", "W H McBrayer", and "W. R. Riley." | | Business name timeline: W R Riley Distilling Co.
Address timeline: 1529-1531 Genesee | | Business category timeline (abbreviations decoded below): D, W (1914)
Years that company appeared in directories
Years directories were consulted
Kansas City directory notes
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BUY ME! | BUY ME! | BUY ME! | BUY ME! |
no date | no date | no date | 1910 |
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Appearance in
directories: 1910, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1916
Directories
consulted: 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1887, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918
Kansas City directory
notes: W = Wine & Liquor Dealers, Wholesale, D = distilleries (1881), V-R = Wine & Liquor Dealers, Retail (1889). Directories for 1870-1874, 1878, 1880-1885, 1895, and 1901 came in the form of type-written transcriptions rather than photocopies.
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