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In Minnesota after WWII and into the mid-century, "Hamm's" was a common synonym for beer, as in "It's been a long day - let's get a Hamm's", or packing for a summer picnic, "Don't forget to put in the Hamm's!"
William Hamm, Jr. was kidnapped in St. Paul by the Barker-Karpis Gang in the 1930s. The subsequent investigation by the FBI employed the first attempt at raising latent fingerprints from paper ransom notes.
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