DRINKING DYNAMITE
AMERICANS IN DRY REGIME
ANALYSIS OF FANCY BEVEBAGI6.
(Cnital Pre«i Association.—Coprrifht.) CHICAGO, 2nd September. , Mr. Tellowley, Prohibition enforcement director in this diitrict, declared the American liquor drinkers were going insane and had nobody to blame but themselves. I "People are consuming dynamite high balls which come in bottles with i fancy labels," he said. "These are leading to insanity, blindness, and. deathi Cheap moonshine handled by the smaller bootleggers is less dangerous than the so-called genuine .liquor. People might as well mix ether with ginger ale and call it xye^ rum, whisky, or any other name bootleggers call the stuff.''' . . Mr. Tellowley ordered samples to be analysed from a large liquor hall. Liquors labelled "Bacardi rum," '' Scotch whisky," " Canadian rye,'' and "Old Kentucky Bourbon were found to contain-quantities of pyrltine, wood alcohol, benzol, kerosene, nitrobenzol, pine oil, ether, and toluol. Mr. Tellowley said that in most cases where deaths were attributed to acute alcoholism it was nothing more than a ease of poisoning. ■ ..
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 9
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165DRINKING DYNAMITE Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 9
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