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Vermont Department of Liquor Control

American state government agency

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ7921708 ↗
Source-derived summary

Formed in 1933, the Vermont Department of Liquor and Lottery is a department of the state government of Vermont responsible for purchasing, distributing, and selling distilled spirits through its agency stores and enforcing Vermont's alcohol and tobacco statutes, with a strong emphasis on limiting youth access.

Line of duty deaths

Since 1933, the Vermont Department of Liquor Control has lost 1 officer.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Vermont Department of Liquor Control” is american state government agency. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Vermont, Department and Liquor, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1933—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Vermont, Department and Liquor is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “american state government agency” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 8, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7921708. VIAF identifies the subject as 144580640. The Library of Congress control number is no2001077472. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1933.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
Verify next

Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Vermont Department of Liquor Control”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Vermont Department of Liquor Control primary sources, Vermont Department of Liquor Control archive and Vermont research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Vermont Department of Liquor Control”?
  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Vermont Department of Liquor Control” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.