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...Oakland, Neb., Leon Jarvis, Nelson Jarvis, Hollis Cleveland, Lawrence Kohlmeier and Reuben Roberg died after drinking large quantities of anti-freeze solution under the impression that it was wine...
...Andrew John Volstead, author of the National Prohibition Act, denied that there were any such loopholes in his law. But well known is the fact that the above-quoted exception was put into Mr. Volstead's act to permit the farmer, chief supporter of Prohibition, to make his wine and hard cider without Federal molestation. Recalled was the case of onetime Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland who publicly made high-powered wine in his home only to be acquitted in a test case by a Baltimore jury. In New York a court case was found where...
...make their own beverages at home as it is to suggest that they make their own clothing or raise their own food. . . . Let's talk about the essential violator of Prohibition, the person who uses alcoholic beverages. . . . There are millions of him throughout the land. Whether he serves wine to his dinner guests, whether he brews and drinks a makeshift beer, whether he keeps a jug of corn or apple in his oat bin or hayloft, he instinctively feels he is within his personal and private rights and it's nobody's business. . . . Drop shams and subterfuges...
Fixed in many a schoolboy's memory is the fact that 15th Century George Duke of Clarence died in a butt of malmsey (aromatic grape) wine. Sleepy-eyed Abdul Hamil II, Sultan of Turkey, died in Magnesia, not a solution but a town in Asia Minor. At the time of his death (1918), though a prisoner of the "Young Turkish" government he was worth $1,500,000,000, was generally considered Richest Man in the World. Last week the Greek government agreed to pay $50,000,000 to nine of his widows, 13 of his children. Not only...