“GEORGE C. WARE.

The extensive Cider, Cider Vinegar, Ginger Ale, and Mineral Water Manufactory of George C. Ware is situated at Nos. 287 and 289 West Third Street. This is the most extensive establishment in this branch of business in the city or State, and was established in the year 1859. The works have a frontage of forty feet, a depth of ninety feet, and a height of four stories, with sub-cellars. Each floor of the building is supplied with the newest machinery and appliances for the prosecution of a large business. And it is astonishing to what an extent this business has grown in the United States during the past decade. In many households in the cities, and many whole villages in the country, cider has become the only drink, except tea and coffee, universally used. There are many varieties of apples from which cider is made, many of those grown in the State of Ohio being of fine quality. The apple, as is well known, contains a certain acid known to the medical profession as malic acid, and this is said to be the essential element of the value of apples as an antidote to the habit of inebriating. In the best varieties of cider this acid is preserved, and the use of cider has frequently rescued a man from ruin with whom no other course of treatment had been effectual. Ginger Ale is also rapidly becoming a favorite beverage, and is highly recommended by the faculty. That manufactured by George C. Ware & Co., is exceptionally good.”

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Illustrarted Cincinnati, by Danile J. Kenny, 1875, page 236