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A Woman to Know: Emma Koehler

A Woman to Know: Emma Koehler

Everyone has been drinking booze for years. — Emma Koehler

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Jan 08, 2020
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Everyone has been drinking booze for years. — Emma Koehler

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When her high-powered, high-society, always-philandering husband Otto suddenly died in 1916, Emma Koehler had to pick up the pieces. Otto had established Texas’s largest brewery, Pearl Beer Brewing in San Antonio. But upcoming Prohibition legislation threatened its su…

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