The world didn’t end! Have a beer!
(source: The Appleton Post-Crescent October 16, 1938.)
~ Rainier Beer, Seattle City Directory (1906)
via University of Washington Digital Collection
(click to enlarge)I wish I would have had this to show my mom when I got caught drinking beer at 14.
“Mom, I just want a new lease on life….”
“German airship crew: never drink and drive”
~ Philadelphia Sanitary Fair Catalogue & Guide, ed. by Thomas Izod, June 1864
“Jolly fellows here predominate, ever ready to join in one’s despondency, and divide with you, your sorrows for the time being”
Note: “The United States Sanitary Commission was a private relief agency created by federal legislation on June 18, 1861, to support sick and wounded soldiers of the U.S. Army during the American Civil War.” (Wikipedia)
