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Show WEALTHY ONES PAY HIGH FOR NEAR BEER CHICAGO. Mia 9. Daniel Davlaj came to Chicago from New York toi make $1,000,000 selling "near-beer" under the guise of real beer to 1 1 dents of the "Gold Coast," the home of many of Chicago's wealthiest citizens citi-zens Monday he sat behind th bars in the lock-up In lb" federal building and j defied prohibition agents to prove that the "kick" In his brew registered more than one-half of one per cent. "I came here all the way from I New York." he told federal officials, I "because I knew from newspaper re-I re-I porta thai Chicago was one of the bl It cities In the country to make money on booze, I am no a bootlegger, and I am not a thief. But when a fellow-can fellow-can fgure out that there are enough fools In the world tb give him a mll-I mll-I lion dollars through being foolod, I believe he is entitled to the dough. 'Here ,as m pi oposii ,,n. I knee, that there were u number of beer lovers lov-ers among the wealthy. I knew too. that they would buy beer if It was delivered de-livered safely to their homes You know, after three years tho avorago man forgets the taste of real I r He can bo fooled on the near stuff. "So I bought up a lot of near beer 'and Just sold It as beer to the names lof men I found in the bluebook They never knew the difference" |