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Beer In Ads #1529: In 1840 The Price of Marriage Was 3 Goat Skins

April 18, 2015 By Jay Brooks


Saturday’s ad is for Lemp’s Falstaff Bottled Beer, from 1915. Even for 1915, this seems like an odd ad. Their goal seems to be telling people they’re an old brand by reminding them that the brewery was founded that it would cost you three goat skins to have a marriage ceremony performed in the Iowa territories. I wonder if that really worked?

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