Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1915 — INTERESTING ITEM FROM THE CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INTERESTING ITEM FROM THE CITIES

"Virginia Olive Oil” That Roused Dry Tennessee NASHVILLE. TENN.—That bromide expression of earnestness and satisfaction, “Ah! That’s good whisky; it tastes so rich and oily;” not unusual when heard in publie places when liquor is dispensed in wet states, nc

doubt is heard in dry Tennessee now —in private, of course —judging from a recent and oily discovery. Somebody, somewhere, is shipping intoxicating liquors into Tennessee in half-gallon packages labeled “pure olive oil.” While a post office inspector was looking things over in the post office of a town near Nashville, his olfactories were assailed by the odor of brandy, and, further prosecuting his examination, he discovered a tin can

that had in some mysterious way sprung a leak. Applying his nose to the hole in the can, he became solemnly impressed with the fact that, instead of containing “pure olive oil,” the contents were made up Wholly of brandy. The inspector brought the can to Nash Ville and turned it over to District Attorney Lee Douglas. * The can reached the town through the medium of the parcel post, and was branded “Virginia Olive Oil, Made From Selected Olives," and guaranteed under the pure food act. Just how long the manufacturer has been doing an “olive oil” business in this state is, of course, not known, but it is positively knpwn that there was no oil in this particular can. Neither Is it known as a matter beyond proof that the brandy is “oily,” for none of the officials In the federal building was willing to sample the stuff, though all of them expressed a desire to take a sniff at the bunghole just to satisfy themselves that the contents had the same old smell that it used to have before state-wide prohibition went into effect. According to their combined testimony, there was no reason to doubt it, and it was unhesitatingly pronounced brandy, or whisky with a brandy odor.