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Show . "WINE OP LEMON" STARTS HIGH PRICE Whether or not the mysterious new drink, "wine of lemon" started quotations on the yellow citrus fruit to soaring is a much discussed question ques-tion among buyers and experts, but ranchers, who have seen their receipts re-ceipts mount from zero to $12 and $14 a box, are not worrying what caused the Jump, as long as the cause continues to work on the job in the same satisfactory manner. "Wine of Lemon," a new syrup and beverage, iB being served at soda fountains almost to the exclusion of other drinks In the East, It is r' j Fashionable society has popularized it by making It the drink at the dinner din-ner of the elite. Its effect as a bever-i age may be discerned in the following statement by Phillip Rogers of Santa Barbara: "The East is wine-of-lemon mad, because the drink has better than a kick and is being endorsed by preachers, preach-ers, doctors and educators as destructive destruc-tive to germs, imparting bloom to the cheek, alacrity to the walk and steadiness stead-iness to the eye. All of these results are Just the opposite to- those produced produc-ed by moonshine." I California shippers and growers ! have wired the East for the recipe for 'ithe new beverage which has in its spectacular manner apparently saved the California lemon Industry. i So the moonshine of the East fades fad-es away before the sunshine of California, Cali-fornia, extracted from the lemon. i a ! |
