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135 YEARS AGO From the November 30, 1889 edition of the Silverton Standard: SHORTY DISPENSING THE CLAM JUICE.

Shorty McGillan is now dispensing clam juice at Billy Koehler’s. Do not infer from this that Shorty is in the soup, because he isn’t. He started in Colorado as a blacksmith’s devil and has been somewhat of a devil ever since. He makes the finest slack tub cocktails in town and can weld wate…