Show Patent Cure AU Alls in Same Class Class' as Ordinary Booze DENVER Jan 11 Virtually Virtually all patent med medicines cines are taboo under the Interpretation of the sta state e wide prohibition prohibition pro pro- law made yesterday for a large department store stone by John A A. Hush district attorney The Tho effect of I Ithe the ruling ruling means their sale sal In Dener Denver Den Den- ver er will be prohibited on the ground that they are intoxicating liquors Out of a list of twenty-five twenty widely advertised cure aIls alls many of them old standbys only two were re regarded regarded regarded re- re by the district as non prohibitive concoctions non non-I Only patent medicines containing al alcohol alcohol al- al I cohol not to exceed 5 per cent or the tho I percentage average percentage found in iq beer can be bo sold The other twenty-three twenty medicines I contained from 11 to 30 per cent al- al i cohol I Curtailment of ot the business of or many I dru drugstores stores dru stores will ilI r sult from enforcement enforce enforce- me merit ment t of the ruling The of question malt containing containing con con- taming from 1 I to 3 per cent alcohol still still Is undetermined in the opinion of Mr Rush If a sufficient quantity makes a normal man int Intoxicated that test makes It if at once an intoxicating liquor he said i The same applies to various ex cx- tracts principally lemon flavors which I eX-I contain as high as 20 per cent alco I hol The stat statute te does not define Intoxicating intoxicating I cating eating liquor said the district attorney ney On Qa the other hand it Is known I i that beer ber will bring on Intoxication f r Then why not these patent medicines and ani extracts that contain f four ur and five I times that amount I |