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SCOUTING YESTERDAY | Nationwide fireworks crackdown hits South Dakota

This week in South Dakota history: June 6-12

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South Dakotans were preparing for their first “safe and sane” Independence Day 75 years ago, according to the Deadwood Pioneer Times.

Following the passage of state firework restrictions earlier that year, the new 1949 boom ban would allow only for sparklers, Vesuvius and spray fountains, torches, color fire cones and star and comet type color aerial shells without a noise report. Regulations were also placed on the sizes and charges of firecrackers, Roman candles, rockets and toy cap pistols.

The ban was decades in the making.

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