LEOPOLD “BARS” ABSINTHE.
A King Leopold has just affixed his Signature to a Parliamentary measure, thereby converting it into a law of the land, which is destined to prove of lasting benefit to'the Belgian nation, and which may even he described as one of the best memorials of his reign. It is a statute prohibiting, under the penalty of a heavy fine and imprisonment. the manufacture, the transport, the sale, and even the. very storage and keeping on the premres of absinthe, a liqueur to which the most eminent medical authorities assign the origin of more than two-thirds of the cases of insanity in the kingdom.
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 26, 29 March 1907, Page 7
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106LEOPOLD “BARS” ABSINTHE. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 26, 29 March 1907, Page 7
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