AMERICAN PROHIBITION.
t> "NEAR BEER" ILLEGAL. Router. NEW YORK. Jan. 8., The brewers received a severe blow by the decision of the Supreme Court that beer containing 2.75 per cent, of alcohol was illegal. The 1 Court upield tho action of Congress in declaring intoxicating and preventing the sale of beverages containing J per cent, or more of iilcojhol. The decision is regarded as a definition that will stand under constitutional prohibition, and appears to i mean a bone-dry nation. I The Court has also decided that the Volstead Act, which enforces . war-time prohibition, was constitutional.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17362, 8 January 1920, Page 7
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