UNDER PROHIBITION.
ARRESTS FOR DRUNKENNESS ON THE INCREASE. PHILADELPHIA PUTS UP A RECORD. PER FP.nSS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT NEW YORK, Nov. 20. Philadelphia reports what is considered a record breaking week-end of intoxications under prohibition, for third largest city of shows three hundred arrests fof.'disorderly conduct while under the influence of liquor. Two men died from the effects of poisonous liquor, and eight are lying near death ; while .forty are slowly recovering. One old man who was arrested for intoxication', committed suicide in his cell. More than twenty nationalities: 1 are represented among those arrested, including Chinamen and Japanese.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 21 November 1923, Page 7
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97UNDER PROHIBITION. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 21 November 1923, Page 7
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