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Given the changing landscape of brewing after
Prohibition and the rise of national bottled shipping brewers, the Abner-Drury Brewery had trouble competing. Bankrupt as of 1935, it was briefly revived as The Washington Brewery, Inc. from 1935 to 1938 when it went under permanently. Abner-Drury was
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178:) sued them for building their brewery several inches onto his property. Heurich claimed this incursion "greatly injured" his property, and he sought $ 25,000 in damages (equivalent to $ 915,600 in 2023). Heurich's lot was vacant.
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The name of the firm was initially "Abner and Drury, Brewers", and was changed to "Abner-Drury
Brewery" in 1900. One of its signature products was the Old Glory beer. It made beer from only
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sold to a single bidder at an auction in August 1938 to an agent of
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