Possible Clues:

• School meals cooked on a middle range by a gent?
• 'Small beer' — second fellow's description of Miller's Willy
• Promoter travels by ship, it's said, to island
• Far right in Texas involved in notorious trial town with a new representative
• Beers mother gets in tin for trader
• Person who flogs lass, mean criminal
• He's a seller
• Name lass as new company agent
• Door-to-door person
• Fermented honey drink