Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1920 — Locks Whiskey in a Safe [ARTICLE]

Locks Whiskey in a Safe

Professor Knows Friends Are Honest, but Isn’t Taking Any Chances. Westfield. Mass.— Twenty quarts of bottled-ln-bond whisky, owned by Prof. Lewis B. Allyn, the noted pure food expert, has been kept In his safe since Jan. 16. w “I know my friends are honest, he says, “but I am taking no chances.” The whisky is required from time to time tn the professor’s research and experimental work, and he laid

In a liberal supply before constitutional prohibition went into effect. Prof. Allyn Is working overtime trying to keep pace with the demand for analysis of home-made beverages. One small bottle of home-made wine, which the owner assured him possessed a real kick, proved to be 28 per cent alcohol, or from two to three times the alcoholic content of wines formerly offered for sale. Ethyl alcohoi may have been added to the concoctiod. Prof. Allyn thinks. At any rate, it is the most remarkable of the hundreds of “harmless home-made drinks” he has yet analyzed.