Drinking Beef Tea
" B^ef <ea has become a popular bar room beverage iuOttialiu," seys the Louisriile Courier. " The demand, which began to be lively in (he autumn, has now attained such lively proportions tlmt the prohibition folks are perfectly delighted Said a philosophical barkeeper to areporter the other day 1 ' At first we laughed at the idea of going to the trouble of making it, but now we laugh because we do make it. We sell over 100 drinks per dar and as it is s 15 cent, drink, there is no reason why we should not smile. Who drink it, did you say? Why, everybody; the man about town, who has Wn out with the boys comes here in the morning and calls for beef tea; the business man comes in the afternoon and braces his system with beef tea ; ihe temperance* man who drops in with a bibulous friond takes beef tea; and, in fact, everybody is. becoming a •lave to it.' ".''...
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 35, 25 March 1884, Page 3
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164Drinking Beef Tea Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 35, 25 March 1884, Page 3
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