Liquor licenses??

I do not get how prohibition worked in Kansas.  Liquor licenses indicate that it was legal.  I am going to have read more on this.   Ah, how one thing leads to another.  That is a lot of names. 

The mystery of Kansas liquor laws continues.  I have to read more on this.  Robert Bader Smith, the author of the Great Finney Bond Scandal, has a book on it. He is a good researcher and solid, albeit dense writer, therefore I will will write in the margins and underline a lot so I don't want to use the copy I got from the library, but I also am not wanting to get another book until I finish one, I am trying not to stack up too many books.