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Died. Mrs. Lily Eberhard Anheuser Busch, 83, widow of Adolphus Busch, St. Louis beermaker whose factories covered 70 city blocks; onetime mistress of a kolossal castle at Langenschwalbach, Prussia; owner of the magnificent Busch Gardens in Pasadena, Calif., where the admission fees flow into the treasury of the American Legion; of pneumonia; in Pasadena, Calif. Kolossal were the parties at Langenschwalbach, where servants served barbecues with spades and pitchforks, where the Kaiser feasted, where entire hotels were hired to accommodate guests...
That same summer of 1911 he learned that the American Medical Association was to meet at Los Angeles. So from Langenschwalbach he ordered a Kolossal barbecue prepared. There was so much meat roasting in the pits that cooks had to dig it up with pitchforks and spades...
Then he went to his castle on the Rhine, at Langenschwalbach in Prussia, dainty town, famed for its iron and carbonic waters. Adolphus Busch had money, stupendous amounts to the minds of his castle servants and the country folk. His breweries at St. Louis, Vereinigten Staaten, were making. 1,599,459 barrels of good beer every year. His maroon-painted trucks with the spread-eagle trademark rumbled through every large U. S. city delivering cases of beer to barrooms, clubs and homes. He was wealthy. It was Kolossal, his casual hiring of entire hotels to ac commodate his guests...
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