A case against the W. T. Rawleigh company, a patent medicine company of Freeport, Ill., with traveling agents all over the world, was the basis of the assistant attorney's remarks this morning when he said:
"Some of the extracts on the market contain 90 percent of alcohol, and in a few of them 93 percent has been found. This is far above the necessary percentage to preserve the other ingredients of the extracts, which would suffice with an 18 percent alcohol. The distinction between the percent of alcohol necessary to make a solution intoxicating and therefore governable by the statutes against liquor traffic with Indians is not clear, but I am of the opinion that any merchant who would sell an Indian four or five bottles of an extract containing such high percentage of alcohol would be violating the law.
"Merchants should use caution in selling any extract to Indians and should under no consideration sell it unless they are sure beyond a doubt the extract will not be used for a beverage."
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British Warship Warns Merchantman of Presence of German Craft Off New England Coast
PROVIDENCE, Nov. 15.—Captain John Ryan of the liner Holland declares that a British warship informed him by wireless message that a German submarine was lurking off the southern coast of New England. Ryan received the message when his ship was off Block Island.
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