Tuesday’s ad is for Budweiser, from 1914, No. 7 in another series they did in 1914-15 called the “National Heroes Series.” The seventh one features Andreas Hofer, who “was a Tyrolean innkeeper and drover, who in 1809 became the leader of the Tyrolean Rebellion against the French and Bavarian occupation forces during the War of the Fifth Coalition. He was subsequently captured and executed. Hofer is still today venerated as a folk hero, freedom fighter and Austrian patriot.” Curiously, the ad states he was from Switzerland, while the sources I looked at all said he was born in a part of Austria that today is part of Italy.
