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...British cocktails cost 36? apiece. Ale, 12? a half pint...
Fact: The U. S. Pharmacopoeia, law for the Food, Drug & Insecticide Administration, prescribes that one pound of crude ergot be used to make one pint of fluid extract of ergot which when injected into a white leghorn rooster will tint its comb bluish. Spanish ergot satisfies the formula. Russian ergot as imported into the U. S. docs not. Drug manufacturers have been cleaning Russian ergot of its contaminations and using two pounds of it to make a pint of extract. This Russian extract colors the cock's comb as does the Spanish...
Charges: Mr. Campbell's men have been lax in not enforcing the letter of the Pharmacopoeia, one pound ergot to one pint of extract; they have been lax in admitting to import filthy Russian ergot; the Russian extract contains obstetrically harmful adulterants; the Administration has, for improper reasons, been condoning the breaking of pure food laws by drug manufacturers...
Baltimore citizens,wondered what Director Woodcock would do about their- and his-soaking Wet city. Speakeasies in Baltimore have run openly and in great numbers for years. Good domestic gin, most popular drink, sells for $1 per pint. Maryland moonshiners supply the city with a fair grade of whiskey while the best drug store rye (cut) can be freely obtained for $5 per pint. Good beer is to be had from Pennsylvania at 35 cents the glass. There is little or no homebrewing because the liquor market is too wide open. Chesapeake Bay shipping provides wealthy Vets with expensive foreign...
...nightly swarm of bums staggering from one swinging door to another, Manhattan's Bowery has been a comparatively sober thoroughfare since Prohibition. The bums have been lounging in speakeasies, drugstores, paintshops where "smoke" (colored, usually poisonous, alcohol) could be purchased for 15? the glass, 50? the pint. Last week the Bowery bums were on the street again, pitifully wandering, finding neither swinging doors nor "holes in the wall...