Judge — February 8, 1902 — page 20: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

It advertises **Haffbrau Brewing Company** of Lowell, Massachusetts, promoting their "Pure Malt Beverages Exclusively." The ad offers a sample cask of 10 dozen pint bottles for $10.50, deliverable to any U.S. railroad station. It emphasizes "The Seal of Purity" and claims their beer is "The finest table beer in the World." A smaller competing ad appears for **Harvard Pure Beer**, highlighting imported choice barley and hops. This appears to be from the Prohibition era or pre-Prohibition period when breweries aggressively marketed mail-order beer delivery. The ornate decorative border and bottle imagery were typical of early 20th-century beer advertising style.