Saw a reference to this, tracked down the article. Pretty interesting. Amazing how much has not changed in 80 years. Comes from The American Mercury, November 1935 issue.
Click each of these smallish unreadable pics for a big version of same.
Aye it was lad - aye it was. Back then, electric brewing meant you had electric light in your house instead of gas lamps. And sour beers were much more common
Thanks for pmming me about this. It's so funny too how some of the same attitudes abounded back then. The one that jumped out at me was the "most folks only brew 5 gallon batches, but us REAL homebrewers make 10 gallon batches." This could have been plucked from any forum post today.
Too bad they didn't have kegs back then. The author of article would have been one of those guys who always writes 'Just start kegging' in any of the threads about bottling.