Title: Hires' Improved Root Beer

Identifier: LL02.12.01.13.02   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/20963)

Description: Advertisement for Hires' Improved Root Beer depicting a woman dressed in an elegant black dress and sitting in front of an oriental folding screen. A girl dressed in an ivory dress with lace and pink bows is standing in the doorway holding a box of Hires' Improved Root Beer. In tiny print in the lower right corner is: J. Ottmann, Lith., Puck Bldg., N.Y. The reverse of the card has the heading: "What Shall We Drink?" Hires' Improved Root Beer is a popular drink and is "unquestionably one of the best blood purifiers in the world, and for kidney disease it has no equal. ... A package makes five gallons of a most delicious, sparkling, temperance drink." Sold by G.A. Francis, Pharmacist, 64 Sixth Ave., New York.