From Blasts from The Ram's Horn, 1902.

From Blasts from The Ram's Horn, 1902.

Here's a precursor to the levitating beer bottle illusion, from The Choice Works of Thomas Hood, 1881.

See also this collection of 112 cocktail recipes to be drunk in remembrance of the dead: Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.

In 1894, nickel beer was actually $1.37, adjusted for inflation.  From Bill Nye's History of the United States.  The caption reads: "Where beer was only five cents per glass."

An illustration from a 1901 issue of Punch magazine.

Though the famed comedian/juggler/alcoholic W. C. Fields made his Broadway debut in 1906 at the age of 26, we're going to register this 1906 image from London's Punch as a precursor to the archetype that later became his signature.  The caption reads: "Thoughts for non-thinkers.  Be sure you raise no more spirits than you can conjure down."

"Such is the power of wine.  It is, after all, the juice that comes from a dying grape—to get drunk is to know how it is to begin to die."
—Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings  (What a truly amazing read!)