High-value material-culture evidence for the use of institutional association and symptom language in American whiskey marketing.
The image is evidence of historical advertising rhetoric, not of headache prevention, public-health endorsement, or product efficacy.
A reproduced Green River Distilling Company advertisement calls the product “The Whisky Without a Headache,” invokes use by the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, and pairs those health-adjacent claims with awards and quality language.
PDF sheet 156
Chapter 5 — historic whiskey advertisement
Visually checked at full-page resolution on PDF sheet 156 during the complete visual pass on 2026-08-26; this image-only sheet has no extractable body text.
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