BEER FOR AMERICA
DECISION OF THE STATES. NEW YORK, April 6. Nineteen States and the district of Columbia will go off tho near-beer standard at 12.1 a.m. on Friday, when the sale of beer containing 3.2 per cent, alcohol by weight ano 4 per cent, by volume becomes legal. Brewers in some Stares plan to deliver as soon as it becomes legal. Others, ruling out jupiiee parties at midnight, say that beer will not be delivered before breakfast time. The nineteen States are: Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, Now York, Ohio, Orego, Pennsylvania, Washington, n 1 Wisconsin. Six other States have set specific dates ranging from April 13 to July 1, Louisiana, Vermont, North Carolina, Wyoming, West Virginia, and North Dakota and still others have proposals pending to legalise tho sale of beer. The regulations vary as to where and how beer can be sold. The price is expected to vary. One price quoted frequently in New York was a dollar and ft) cents wholesale for a case of 24 bottles.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 7
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180BEER FOR AMERICA Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 7
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