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Beer In Ads #1842: Facts Versus Fallacies #72

March 6, 2016 By Jay Brooks


Sunday’s ad is another one for the Pennsylvania State Brewers Association, from 1915, No. 72 in series they did from 1915-17 called “Facts Versus Fallacies.” I have no idea how many were done but some of the them are numbered into low triple digits, suggesting there were a lot of them, all in an effort to stop Prohibition from happening and win over support for beer. This ad, marked “72,” is another nod to history, rebutting the (apparent) prohibitionists position that Abraham Lincoln and George Washington would have been in favor of prohibition. For their evidence, Lincoln once co-owned a liquor store, and for Washington, oddly, they didn’t bring up his beer recipe or the letters professing his love of porter. They end by claiming both presidents “found the use of liquors necessary in both civil and military life.”

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers, Just For Fun Tagged With: Advertising, History, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Prohibition



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