 instead that perhaps I would look and see if beer or ale were mentioned in any of these ads. And this remarkable ad popped up on my computer screen. And the thing that struck me at first was the length of this ad. It was far longer than typical. It occupied almost a whole column in the newspaper. It was printed in the Raleigh Register in North Carolina in 1824. And this ad described a young woman who went by the name of Patsy Young