The New Whisky.
lODINE AND WATER. XKAY YORK, August 8. What New York drinks in the guise of whisky under the Prohibition regime is revealed by the report of the city’s chief medical examiner, which states that deaths from acute alcoholism have increased since 1920 by 89 per cent. Only one-sixth of New York’s whisky is genuine.
Illicit liquor on sale ranges in qualify from genuine bottlled-iu-bond whisky to water,'coloured and flavoured with iodine. Among the more jxiisniious kinds of 'pseudo-whisky regularly consumed are-: (!) Unpurilied: denatured alcohol, which may contain creosote, benzine, kerosene, petroleum, ether, or some other deiiaturant; (2) wowd or methyl alcohol; (.3) grain alcohol coloured with burnt sugar. Even experienced whisky drinkers are said to lie often deceived by a mixture of iodine and water, the iodine giving the liquid a tang that resembles the genuine spirit.—*
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1922, Page 3
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140The New Whisky. Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1922, Page 3
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