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Long have U. S. citizens been peddled kegs of California and New York grape juice, destined to become wine in the citizens' homes. These were semi-bootleg sales, unnoticed by the Prohibition Bureau. There was no advertising, only a door-to-door canvass. But last week in Milwaukee there appeared large billboard and full-page newspaper advertisements for a grape concentrate called "Vine-Glo." Beside thin-stemmed glasses of ruby and amber liquids were the words: "You can't buy it from peddlers. Not on sale at any store. Never served in any restaurant-BUT YOU CAN HAVE...
...Fruit Industries, Inc., an association of California grapemen backed in their effort to dispose of a bumper crop by a $1,300,000 loan from the Federal Farm Board (TIME, Oct. 20). At once Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock was besieged with queries. Previously he had said: "Wine may be made in the home for use in the home." Then, when that remark received wide publicity, he had said: "It is all a question of intent. . . ." Following that, his men had obtained the indictment of nine California grapemen for advertising that "fine old wine" could be made from their...
...Vine-Glo" is obviously intended to turn into wine. But the method of turning it (simply remove the bung) is not mentioned on billboards or in the newspapers. At no place in Fruit Industries' advertising does the word "wine" appear. Also, while the advertising says, "There is only one way to get it," and directs prospective purchasers to some 200 druggists and 100 grocers in Milwaukee (agents who do not carry the kegs, simply take orders), the advertising does not describe the servicing and bottling performed by the grapemen themselves when the wine has matured...
...ceremony," said he to assembled correspondents, "will have the complete character of a wedding according to Orthodox rites. The character of the rites will be unmistakably apparent in the exchange of nuptial crowns by the King and Queen and in the partaking of the blessed wine from a special cup. These constitute essential acts of the Orthodox marriage service...
That His Majesty now regards this wine & women period of his princehood as a sort of Gethsemane appears from the design of The White Cross. On a white-enamel field the new decoration bears Carol's portrait in miniature, over his brow a cruel crown of thorns...