Rush/Work the Growler (1883, 1884) on Ancestry.com

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   20 June 1883, TRENTON TIMES (Trenton, NJ), pg.2, col. 2:
   The growler is the latest New York institution.  It is a beer can, the
legitimate outgrowth of the enforcement of the Sunday liquor law.  Young men
stand on the sidewalk and drink their beer out of a can, which, as fast as
emptied, is sent to be refilled where-ever its bearer can find admittance.  It is
called the growler because it provokes so much trouble in the scramble after
beer.


   14 November 1884, ATCHISON GLOBE (Atchison, Kansas), pg.3?, col. 4:
   "I have heard that in New York people of the working-class, who live in
tenement-houses, send out a pitcher for beer in the evening.  They call it
'working the growler.'  Here in Chicago the best people indulge in the degrading
practice, I regret to say."

(From the CHICAGO TRIBUNE--ed.)