Search Strategies & Selected Articles

The links below provide access to a sampling of articles from historic newspapers that can be found in Chronicling America. You can further explore the topic of "Brewers’ Campaign Against Prohibition" using the following search strategies:

Use the following terms in combination, proximity, or as a phrase:
Prohibition, temperance, Facts Versus Fallacies, Budweiser spells temperance, Budweiser means moderation, National Hero Series, liquid bread, true temperance, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Ruppert’s Knickerbocker, Rainier Pale, Budweiser, and Anheuser Busch.
It is important to use a specific date range if looking for articles for a particular event in order to narrow your results. Date range can be very useful to isolate specific ad campaigns.

Selected Articles from Chronicling America

Pabst Blue Ribbon

Barley, Bread, and Beer
The Havre Herald (Havre, MT), October 4, 1907, Page 6, Image 6, col. 5-6.
True Temperance
St. Johns Herald and Apache News (St, Johns, AZ), November 14, 1907, Image 5, col. 2.

Budweiser

"Shakespeare"
New-York Tribune (New York, NY), January 11, 1908, Page 8, Image 8, col. 1.
"Bismarck"
The Labor World (Duluth, MN), April 4, 1908, Image 6, col. 5-7.

Seattle Brewing & Malting Company

"Don’t You Think"
The Seattle Star (Seattle, WA), October 12, 1912, Page 3, Image 3, col. 1.
"True Temperance Does Not Mean Prohibition But Moderation"
The Seattle Star (Seattle, WA), June 12, 1913, Page 3, Image 3, col. 1.

Budweiser's Framers of the Constitution of the U.S.A. Campaign

"James Madison"
Goodwin's Weekly: A Thinking Paper for Thinking People (Salt Lake City, UT), May 1, 1915, Page 13, Image 13, col. 1-2.
"Alexander Hamilton"
Goodwin's Weekly: A Thinking Paper for Thinking People (Salt Lake City, UT), May 15, 1915, Page 14, Image 14, col 3-4.
"Gouveneur Morris"
Goodwin's Weekly: A Thinking Paper for Thinking People (Salt Lake City, UT), May 29, 1915, Page 14, Image 14, col. 3-4.
"Benjamin Franklin"
Goodwin's Weekly: A Thinking Paper for Thinking People (Salt Lake City, UT), June 12, 1915, Page 14, Image 14, col. 3-4.
"The Pinckneys"
The Madison journal (Tallulah, LA), June 12, 1915, Image 4, col. 3-4.
"Charles Carroll"
Goodwin's Weekly: A Thinking Paper for Thinking People (Salt Lake City, UT), August 7, 1915, Page 13, Image 13, col. 3-4.
"Robert Morris"
Goodwin's Weekly: A Thinking Paper for Thinking People (Salt Lake City, UT), August 21, 1915, Page 14, Image 14, col. 3-4.
"John Hancock"
The Enterprise (Harlem, MT), September 9, 1915, Image 3, col. 3-6.
"Thomas Jefferson"
Goodwin's Weekly: A Thinking Paper for Thinking People (Salt Lake City, UT), October 2, 1915, Page 13, Image 13, col. 3-4.
"George Washington"
The Enterprise (Harlem, MT), August 26, 1915, Image 3, col. 3.

Budweiser's National Hero Series

"Garibaldi-- Italia's Great Patriot"
The Ogden Standard (Ogden City, UT), May 9, 1914, 4 P.M. City Edition, Page 8, Image 8, col. 4-7.
"Bismarck-- The Greatest of the Germans"
Goodwin's Weekly: A Thinking Paper for Thinking People (Salt Lake City, UT), May 16, 1914, Page 14, Image 14, col. 1-2.
"Kosciusko-- The Greatest of the Poles"
The Lexington Intelligencer (Lexington, MO), May 29, 1914, Image 8, col. 1-4.
"Lord Nelson-- Old England's Great Naval Hero"
The Hayti Herald (Hayti, MT), July 2, 1914, Image 5, col. 1-4.
"Leif Ericsson-- The Discoverer of America"
The Hayti Herald (Hayti, MT), July 16, 1914, Image 5, col. 3-6.
"William Wallace-- Scotland's Great Patriot"
Goodwin's Weekly: A Thinking Paper for Thinking People (Salt Lake City, UT), August 8, 1914, Page 14, Image 14, col. 3-4.
"Andreas Hofer-- The Innkeeper Patriot of Switzerland"
Goodwin's Weekly: A Thinking Paper for Thinking People (Salt Lake City, UT), August 15, 1914, Page 14, Image 14, col. 3-4.
"Daniel O’Connell-- 'The Liberator'"
Rock Island Argus (Rock Island, IL), August 19, 1914, HOME EDITION, Page 2, Image 2, col. 4-7.
"Kossuth-- Greatest of Hungarians"
Arizona Republican (Phoenix, AZ), September 16, 1914, Page 9, Image 9, col. 4-7.
"Admiral de Ruyter-- Greatest of Holland's Sea Captains"
Goodwin's Weekly: A Thinking Paper for Thinking People (Salt Lake City, UT), September 26, 1914, Page 13, Image 13, col. 3-4.

Ruperts Knickerbocker

"What is Beer?"
New-York Tribune (New York, NY), September 17, 1914, Page 5, Image 5, col. 1.
"Food-Temperance-And Beer"
The Evening World (New York, NY), September 22, 1914, Baseball and Racing Results, Image 5, col. 1.
"Beer is a Food"
The Evening World (New York, NY), November 17, 1914, Final Night, Image 8, col. 1.
"Beer Is an Appetizer"
The Sun (New York, NY), February 11, 1915, Page 7, Image 7, col. 4-8.

Fitger Natural Beer

"America’s Most Famous Brewers"
The Bemidji Daily Pioneer (Bemidji, MN), January 8, 1915, Page 9, Image 9, col. 3-5.

Pennsylvania State Brewer's Association

"Facts Versus Fallacies" - No. 45
The Patriot (Indiana, PA), June 10, 1916, Image 3, col. 4-6.
"Facts Versus Fallacies" - No. 55
The Patriot (Indiana, PA), July 22, 1916, Image 3, col. 4-5.
"Facts Versus Fallacies" - No. 64
The Patriot (Indiana, PA), August 19, 1916, Image 3, col. 1-3.
"Facts Versus Fallacies" - No. 97
The Patriot (Indiana, PA), January 6, 1917, Image 2, col. 1.
"Proclamation!"
The Patriot (Indiana, PA), May 5, 1917, Image 2, col. 4.

Budweiser's Liquid Bread

"Budweiser is Liquid Bread—Nothing More—Nothing Less"
Goodwin's Weekly: A Thinking Paper For Thinking People (Salt Lake City, UT), October 14, 1916, Page 16, Image 16, col 1.

Budweiser's Moderation Series

"The Kite Must Have Just Enough Tail to Fly—No More"
The Donaldsonville Chief (Donaldsonville, LA), May 12, 1917, Image 2, col. 5.
"Too Much Rain is Ruinous—And So is Too Little"
Goodwin's Weekly: A Thinking Paper for Thinking People (Salt Lake City, UT), May 19, 1917, Page 13, Image 13, col. 3-4.
"Steam—A Mighty Power for Good"
The Donaldsonville Chief (Donaldsonville, LA), June 23, 1917, Image 4, col. 3-4.
"Electricity—The Friend of Man, and Also the Foe of Man"
Goodwin's Weekly: A Thinking Paper for Thinking People (Salt Lake City, UT), June 30, 1917, Page 14, Image 14, col. 2-5.

Appeals to Congress

"A Statement by American Brewers on Beer and Grain Consumption (1917)"
The Washington Herald (Washington, DC), May 8, 1917, Page 3, Image 3, col. 1.
"A Statement by the Brewers of the United States (1917)"
The Washington Times (Washington, DC), June 12, 1917, Page 6, Image 6, col. 1.

Citizen's Committee

"Hold the Line for Democracy and Sane Legislation"
The Hayti Herald (Hayti, MT), October 24, 1918, Image 3, col. 1.
"Prohibition and Your Tax Bills"
The St. Joseph Observer (St. Joseph, MT), November 2, 1918, Image 3, col. 1.

Brewers’ Campaign Against Prohibition: Topics in Chronicling America