"LIQUID DEATH"
PHILADELPHIA'S WEED-END.
CHICAGO, 26th November. The Philadelphia police and health officials are alarmed by the week-end deaths from bad liquor and the number of intoxications, both of which were greater than last week. At present the reports are still incomplete, but they indicate that there were eight cases of death, a hundred were confined fc& hospitals, and five hundred were arrested. The police learned that a laree consignment of adulterated liqubr wts sent to Philadelphia by various runners &V thp holiday season. This fe believed to be the cause of the unprecedented situation The police have issued a warning declaring that these eight deaths shou d be a lesson to all patrons of the bootlegger, that his whisky is liquid death. * *
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 129, 28 November 1923, Page 5
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