FATAL DRAUGHT.
YOUTHS DRINK POISONOUS MIXTURE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received February 23, 11.50 p.m.) WASHINGTON, February 23. 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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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18501, 24 February 1930, Page 9
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66FATAL DRAUGHT. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18501, 24 February 1930, Page 9
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