FATAL TOASTS AT BANQUET
Australian t'resi. 4«<M>ei«(l<ui—Cnltea Servire VANCOUVER,. Cth March. A Peoria message states that, seveiir teen are dead, eight blind, and twenty -rtritieajly ill. through drinking ('death toasts" at a stockman's banquet on Saturday night. ' ..,■'■■• One bootlegger.has been arrested who supplied liquor for, the party. He admitted that' he made fifty: gallons of liquor by a new process, using denatured alcohol." Seventy-live people drank his cocktails. . V * - * The poison affected the pancreas, with convulsions -and,.blindness preceding every doath.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 54, 7 March 1929, Page 11
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80FATAL TOASTS AT BANQUET Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 54, 7 March 1929, Page 11
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