METHYLATED SPIRITS
A MADDENING ALCOHOL. (By Telegraph — Press Association.) GHIUSTCHUHOH, Last Night. In tho course of the hearing of the Goscomb case, it came out that Coscomb and his wife had been drinking methylated spirits. Inquiries shov that thero has been a marked increase in tho consumption of this spirit; lately. Chemists say that they hav*; constant demands for it. In many cases where they suspect it is required for drinking they refuse to supply it. One instance is quoted in which a man bought three bottles regularly on Saturday nights, until the chemist was informed that he was a dipsomaniac. The police say that met'h ,;• latod spirits are a particularly. mad • dening form of alcohol, and they urge thai its sale be restricted as a poison.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10637, 16 May 1912, Page 5
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127METHYLATED SPIRITS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10637, 16 May 1912, Page 5
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