Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-04-20 | Page 1 | Corner Drug Stores Now Analyze 'Bootleg' Liquor

Corner Drug rug Stores Now N w Analyze Bootleg Liquor YORK AP The NEW April 20 AP corner drug store has add added d to its function of dispensing pills and pen points plasters and perfumes cos cosmetics cosmetics cos cos- emetics and ice cream sodas a new service service analyzing analyzing liquor Alcoholic beverages analyzed here read discreet window pla pla- cards Dont believe It say city health officials Nothing more than mental safeguards safeguards safe safe- guards ards says Dr Louis I. I Harris health commissioner who today warned that many of the drug store anal analyses ses are only s superficially coir coi- coi r ct Dr Harris asserts that only 1 per percent percent percent cent of ot New Yorks York's drug diug emporiums are equipped for tor complete analytical work and that the send specimens to obscure and poorly equipped laboratories Many purchasers of bootleg liquor it is revealed make it a rule to have all their stuff analyzed no matter what its source of guaranteed guaranteed guaranteed guaran guaran- teed pedigree A A. payment o of 5 i insures th the I druggist an exhaustive analysis which ascertains the quality and detects the presence of poison polson The alcoholic content in most of of it I f ill pure and t tests high said one chemist but but most of our patronage Is from the exclusive Park avenue neighborhood where the best Is bo bought Theres a lot of liquor sold In I speak that is pretty poor poor poor- I just falls faIls short of poison polson But you take hike a chance wherever you buy buy- these days Your bootlegger may ge get stuck himself without even knowing It He doesn't have havre his stuff sturt tested The average analysis is not a guarantee of the quality of the liquor said Dr Harris It may contain fusel oil which Is difficult difficult difficult cult to detect and which becomes ether as the liquor ages The city health department has received many requests for tor liquor analyses but the municipal laboratories laboratories laboratories labora labora- tories only analyze liquor for hos boa