c. 1900 Armour’s Beef Tea Chicago Restaurant Porcelain Mug kitchen decor but all of the lids

but all of the lids come off easily and close tight

lending themselves to all sorts of arrangements

which wear the stories of their lives on their sleeves--or bottoms

8 3/4" t x 7" w x 2 1/2" d

c. 1900 Armour’s Beef Tea Chicago Restaurant Porcelain Mug kitchen decor but all of the lidsIn recent years we've see a renewed espousing of the benefits of beef tea or bone broth, but Armour's Chicago was making it and distributing it widely at the very beginning of the 1900s in ohotos I've including an ad for it c. 1902. Philip D. Armour, a native of New York State, made a substantial fortune in the pork packing business in Milwaukee in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, then In 1875 moved to Chicago to take charge of Armour & Co.