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Five wonderfully strange beer stories from 1926.
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The five historical items from this edition, with their newspaper proof. Play first if you want to guess.
Schlitz offered to supply every member of Congress with a case of beer so legislators could judge whether it was intoxicating. The brewery sent its offer to Representative John P. Hill of Maryland. It was an offer tied to permission to supply the beer, not proof that Congress accepted or received it.
Abilene Daily Reporter · 1926-02-21 · p. 4
Open the original newspaper ↗Fiorello La Guardia combined permitted malt tonic and near beer in his congressional office to challenge Prohibition’s logic. Reporters and photographers watched the demonstration, which he described as producing a drink with a kick.
La Grande Evening Observer · 1926-06-19 · p. 1
Open the original newspaper ↗Police responded to an argument over dividing beer, then arrested two men for possession. As officers drove down Broadway with the haul, bottles began exploding inside their car. The quarrel brought the police; the bottles supplied the encore.
Oklahoma City Times · 1926-08-28 · p. 4
Open the original newspaper ↗Returning travelers described wharf bars in Havana where visiting Americans could get free beer and food without straying far from their ship. This is what the travelers told the newspaper, rather than a claim that all Cuban bars were free.
Morning Register · 1926-03-04 · p. 6
Open the original newspaper ↗A short news item said opening confiscated beer in an Evanston courtroom gave the magistrate and city attorney a shower. Future bottles, it reported, would have to be opened outside the courtroom door.
Wichita Daily Times · 1926-07-25 · p. 17
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