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GREEN RIVER (waved up) / THE WHISKEY / WITHOUT A HEADACHE / MW (monogram: a lace-and-curlicue design runs above and to the right) M. WOLLSTEIN, DISTRIBUTORS / KANSAS CITY MO

ID#: PGG159
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Glass Category:Liquor advertising
Glass Type:Thin-walled shot
Label Type:Usual white-etched label
Dimensions:2-1/8" x 1-7/8" x 1-1/2"
Edmonson:Not listed
State:MO
City:Kansas City
Notes:
M Wollstein Mercantile Co. listed from 1880-1918.

"T Wollstein & J Seligson" (no date, but ca. 1895). Advertising refers to this address as the "Main House" or "Station A".

It is not certain whether the origins of this company were in Missouri or in Nebraska because they had multiple branch offices in both states (and others). A price list from 1889 identifies several of these by name:
    M. Wollstein & Co., W Main St., Sedalia, MO
    H Brann & Co., 233 Booneville St., Springfield, MO
    M Glass & Co., 224 N 10th St., Lincoln, NE
    H Brann & Co., 311 Larimer St., Denver, CO
    M Wollstein & Co., 522 S 13th St., Omaha, NE
    Chicago Liquor House, 222 16th St., Omaha, NE
    M Wollstein & Co., 1420 E 18th St., Kansas City, MO
    M Glass & Co., 304 Main St., Kansas City, MO

See also:
    H Brann & Co., Kansas City, MO
    Wollstein Merc. Co., St Joseph, MO.,

Brand names used by this company include: "Ambassador", "Anderson 1874", "Anderson Club", "Anderson County", "Blue Ribbon", "Burrwood", "Caney Creek", "Cascade", "Cedar Brook", "Cedar Point", "Clarke's Pure Rye", "D Rohrer & Co.", "David Rohrer", "Duffy's Malt Whiskey", "Edgewater", "Freeland", "G. W. S. Springwater", "Gibson's Rye", "Good Luck Rye", "Green River", "Guckenheimer", "Hermitage", "I. W. Harper", "Iler's Malt Whiskey", "J. G. Mattingly & Son", "Jackson Bourbon", "Kentucky Club", "Lewis & Son", "M. V. Monarch", "M.S. Bond", "Marshall", "Melridge Straight Penn Rye", "Melrose", "Melwood", "Millrose", "Monarch", "Monticello Maryland Rye", "OFC Taylor", "Old Crow", "Old Document", "Old Elkport", "Old Horsey", "Old Stone", "Old Taylor", "Old Trail Penna. Whiskey", "Sunny Side All Rye", "Swearingen Sour Mash", "T J Megibben", "T. J. Monarch", "T. P. Ripy", "W. H. Head & Co.", "W. H. McBrayer", "Welfare Club", "White Malt Rye", "Wollstein's Pure Rye", "Wollstein's Select", "Wollstein's Sour Mash", "Wollstein's Special Reserve", and "Woodland."

Company name timeline:
M Wollstein (1881-1904), M Wollstein Mercantile Co. (1905-1918)

Address timeline:
1068-1070 Union Ave, W.K. (1881-1914), 23-25 E 24 th (1915-1918)

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