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Bootleggers, Poisonous Liquor Sales, New York 1923

In a chilling exposé, Prohibition Director revealed last night that bootleg liquor has claimed the lives of over a hundred New Yorkers in just thirty days. The sinister substances, often laced with toxic chemicals like lysol, mercury, formaldehyde, carbolic acid, lead, copper, zinc, wood alcohol, and fusel oil, have left a trail of death and destruction in their wake.

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