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...Beerage. If there had been an Almanach de Gotha of beer, its publishers after a 13-year lapse might hardly know how to start again, so many have been the changes. Yet the publishers would certainly know where to begin: with B for the Busches of Budweiser, unquestionably the foremost house of the beerage, a house which one year produced 1,650,000 barrels,* an alltime record. Adolphus, the founder of the Busch line, was the hearty offshoot of a wealthy Busch family of Mainz on the Rhine. He arrived in the U. S. in 1857, aged 15, served...
...internal revenue stamps for beer kegs were being ground out at top speed by the Bureau of Engraving & Printing. ¶Newspapers and magazines started rounding up advertisements of beer and accessories. Anheuser-Busch announced...
...Help Wanted" signs were hung out by Philadelphia brewers swamped with job-seekers. Press pictures appeared of huge crowds lined up for work before the Anheuser-Busch plant in St. Louis. ¶In Manhattan the fashionable Waldorf-Astoria began to fix up a "tavern" for beer-drinkers. The Fifth Avenue Hotel planned to convert a restaurant into an imitation sidewalk café and call it the Roosevelt Room. In Milwaukee where factory whistles and fire-engine sirens welcomed the return of beer the famed old Blatz Hotel revived its palm garden for German beer drinkers. ¶Moaned Anti-Saloon League...
Beer of 3.2% compares as follows with famed pre-Prohibition brews: Pabst Blue Ribbon, 2.9%; Schlitz Pale, 3.1%; Anheuser-Busch Budweiser, 3.8%; Cream City Pilsener, 3.3%; Blatz Muenchener, 3.5%; Hammond Muehlhauser...
Married. Lily Busch Magnus, great-granddaughter of the late St. Louis Brewer Adolphus Busch; and Arthur D. B. Preece, British-born St. Louis sportsman; in St. Louis. Three days before the wedding, gunmen captured the country house of George S. Tiffany, knocked him out, planned to rob his guests at a luncheon for the bride & groom, until foiled by a steward from the swank Bridlespur Club...