Thursday’s ad is entitled Thanksgiving Dinner, and the illustration was done in 1952 by Douglass Crockwell. It’s #75 in a series entitled “Home Life in America,” also known as the Beer Belongs series of ads that the United States Brewers Foundation ran from 1945 to 1956. In this ad, another family Thanksgiving dinner is about to begin. And unlike the last few, grandmother is finally taking a break (that looks like her in the back right) and the eldest daughter is stepping up to take her turn as turkey deliverer. Though notice that one of her younger siblings seems to be both pointing out a target spot for touchdown while at the same time holding her beer in the way of it. Such a prankster.
Archives for June 16, 2016
Patent No. 320361A: Method Of Preparing And Treating Starch
Today in 1885, US Patent 320361 A was issued, an invention of William T. Jebb, for his “Method of Preparing and Treating Starch.” There’s no Abstract, though it’s described this way in the application:
This invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of beer and ale from barley malt and the starch extracted from Indian corn or maize.
The object of this invention is to utilize the starch contained in the Indian corn for producing a heavy, light-colored wort, without imparting to the malt-liquor an objectionable taste or flavor or impairing its keeping qualities, by extracting from the corn in a simple and inexpensive manner a crude starch which is substantially free from impurities, and then producing a wort from this starch in connection with barley-malt.