Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1919 — First Bottled Beer. [ARTICLE]

First Bottled Beer.

One of the funniest of accidental discoveries relates to bottled beer. In the reign of Queen Mary a certain dean, of fit Paul’s and master of Westminster school had to fly to toe con-, tlnent for his life. He was angling by the silvery Thames at the time the warning reached him. Some years later he returned not only to England. but to the very spot for the very same purpose, with rod and line Growing thirsty, he remembered thal he had left a bottle of beer In the hollow of a neighboring tree when he had suddenly taken flight some years before. The bottle was there, bul when he removed the cork It wenl off with such a bang as to make him think It had been changed by the fairies to a gun.