The supposed benefits of beer are illusory. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920.

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[Reprinted 1930?]
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679992i
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Why America went dry.
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The supposed benefits of beer are illusory. Colour lithograph, ca. 1920. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Halftones showing: a steel worker carrying a heavy clamp (illustration from Collier's weekly); steel workers in a hot steel mill; a man, his wife and daughter relaxing at home without beer

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Westerville, O[hio], U.S.A. : Published by The American Issue Publishing Company, [Reprinted 1930?]

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1 print : lithograph, printed in black and red ; sheet 91.7 x 61.3 cm.

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Beer is a bluffer. Beer doesn't make hard work easier. ... beer doesn't really cool one off. ... Beer doesn't rest one ... Beer contains alcohol, a habit-forming drug. Prepared and copyrighted 1920 by the Scientific Temperance Federation, Boston, Mass. Horsley: Alcohol and the human body Printed in black and red

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Wellcome Collection 679992i

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The Scientific Temperance Foundation was a successor to the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, based in Boston, Mass.

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