Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1915 — Booze Receipts Falling Off. [ARTICLE]

Booze Receipts Falling Off.

The falling off of receipts of strong drink in the United States hs revealed by the statistics of the international revenue bureau is so striking that Commissioner of International Revenue W. H. Ogburn has assigned competent experts in his bureau to analyze the figures and make a report of their views as to the causes of the decrease. Treasury officials are at a loss as to what has caused the big slump in the consumption of liquors, but are inclined to think that the advance of prohibition in many localities under new state laws is largely responsible, i