"Beer is a Food and Temperance Drink”
October 20, 1906
Summary
An advertisement in the Planet shows that beer helps to overcome “shades of crime, disease, and poverty.”
Transcription
“Beer is a Food and Temperance Drink”
Extract from liquor advertisement
Shades of crime, Disease and Poverty (enthusiastically): Beer is our food; without it we could hardly exist.”
Maudlin Voice (from table): “An temperance drink, too.”
Extract from liquor advertisement
Shades of crime, Disease and Poverty (enthusiastically): Beer is our food; without it we could hardly exist.”
Maudlin Voice (from table): “An temperance drink, too.”
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Lower Right Quadrant
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Emma Roberts
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“"Beer is a Food and Temperance Drink”,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed April 24, 2025, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/770.