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Show Poppy Tea Had a Kick The government won the first case of the kind and ruined the prospects for a thriving opium business when Solm Singh, a Hindu, was convicted In Federal Fed-eral Judge Bean's court In Portland, Ore., after the Jury had deliberated only 20 minutes, says the Los Angeles Times. Soba Singh had discovered the cheapest cheap-est method of extracting opium, t iih t of boiling the poppy down to a thick ton, wnich was a favorite beverage with the Hindus of the city. Negroes in the north end were selling the tea as moonshine, moon-shine, government agents discovered, and patrons of these bootleggers were becoming addicts without knowing, It. |