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...Again, Busch...
...KARL BUSCH Madison...
...TIME, April 12, under PROHIBITION, you speak disparagingly of breweries like Pabst and Anheuser-Busch, which leads the reader to believe that they were unscrupulous in their dealings through the saloons and other agencies. Knowing the Pabst family very well, I take exception to this as they are far from anything such as you lead your readers to believe. They are very well-bred, of good culture, fine breeding, and the influence that they exerted through saloons was absolutely negligible. It might have been the saloon keeper himself but not the brewers who supplied the beverages...
These facts to the contrary, notwithstanding, the morbid or wholesome craving for alcoholic content created a big, quick demand. Pabst began shipments. August A. Busch announced that Anheuser-Busch could not ship for several months. Small druggists will be. limited to five cases a week, big druggists to 25. Twelve-ounce bottles will cost about 35?. At 50?, drug store clerks in Minneapolis were the first to pass them out. Sale in Manhattan followed several days later. In Indiana, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union became hectic, threatening that "our Congress will impeach General Andrews and even Mr. Mellon...
...Berlin, in the Circus Busch, one Labero, hypnotist, made passes at a python. Unentranced, the python grasped Labero's hand so firmly in its jaws that it broke off a tooth. Dismissing the python, Labero put to sleep crocodiles, hens, guinea pigs, rabbits, a boa constrictor. Came an eagle. The eagle fastened its beak deeply into the hand gnawed by the python, but toppled over unconscious at the same moment that Labero fainted from loss of blood. The next subject on the bill was a lion. Said critics: "It's lucky Labero fainted...