DRUNKENNESS IN U.S.A.
PHILADELPHIA'S DISGRACE.
300 ARRESTS AT WEEK-END
A. and N.Z. PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 20. Three hundred persons were arrested for disorderly conduct while under the influence of alcoholic drink this weekend. > Two men died of poisonous and eight are near the point of death irom the same cause. t . i Forty persons collected by the 'ice and attended to by the medical staff, are slowly recovering. One, old man arrested for being in a state of intoxication, committed suicide in his cell. * - Philadelphia is the third largest city in the United States, : .and hag- upwards of .2,000.000 inhabitants, but i' the weekend crop of , intoxicated- p rsons ; under ; the prohibition law is considered a record. Upwards of 20 nationalities were represented among these arrested, including Chinese and Japanese. - '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18563, 22 November 1923, Page 9
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