Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1881 — Increasing Popularity of Beer. [ARTICLE]

Increasing Popularity of Beer.

Globe- Democrat. It is said that lager beer is becoming the fashionable drink in aesthetic and abstinent Boston. A few years ago ostracism was promptly visited upon any man who had a oeer wagon stop in front es-his door; now, the beer wagon comes and goes among the prineip 1 residences as openly and regularly as the milk cart. The amount of beer sold in the city last year reached the dizzy figure of 641,603 barrels, an increase of 61,081 barrels over the preceding year—nearly as much as was sold in St. Louis or Milwaukee, and more than was sold in Cincinnati or Chicago. la our civilization a failure, and is Wendell Phillips played out? “ The idea of fertilizing land with aaltwas ooneelvodby John Napier in ASM.