TRAGEDY AT NEBRASKA
POISON MISTAKEN FOR WINE. FIVE YOUNG MEN DEAD. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, February 22. (Received Feb. 24, at 1 a.m.) At Oakland, Nebraska, a group of young men attending a , carnival here drank a poisonous anti-freeze alcoholic mixture used in automobile radiators, believing it to be wine. Five died and six others are seriously ill. They had found the mixture in a jug in a friend’s cellar.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20959, 24 February 1930, Page 9
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