The New “ Whisky”
lODINE AND WATER
Daily Mail Correspondent). NEW YORK, Aug. 8
What New York drinks in the guise „f 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 88 per cent Only one-sixth of New Yorks whiskv is genuine. . Illicit liquor on sale ranges in qualitv from genuine bottlecl-in-boiul whiskv to water, coloured and flavoured V’h iodine. Among the more poison his kinds of pseudo-whisky regularly consumed are: - l.—Unpurified denatured alcohol, which may contain creosote, benzine, kerosene, petroleum, ether, or some other deiiatiirant. 9 Wood or methyl alcohol. Grain alcohol coloured with burnt sugar. . . , Kvcn experienced whisky drinkers are said to he often deceived by a mixture of iodine and water, the iodine giving the liquid a tang that resolubles the genuine spirit.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1922, Page 2
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145The New “Whisky” Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1922, Page 2
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