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STILL OPERATOR INSULTED BY HINT BOOZE WAS POORI h*fViilt;l;int Issues Protest A-Li.iint Itiiinor That I % lt;• t’Ilt; •»*( -i.m.1 I |»(m lt;JiKilit\ OI’ Ilis Liquor.Bureau county bootleggers are getting rather touchy, and have risen in defense of the quality of the illicit liquor winch they have been manufacturing.One of the most indignant protests made to date has come fromWilliam Baltikauski, of Location, Hiring Valley, who was grossly In-sultcd. in* says, when certain newspapers Intimated that he was making an inferior quality of moons hint*.Baltikauski. whose place at the Location was raided recently by Sheriff^ w ■ wNeill's sponge squad. was hailed into court tlt; answer to the charge of operating a small still. Newspaper accounts of the raid, as presented in the LaSalle paper, represented that some concc-ntrated lye which was found apparently was used to expedite the ferment a lion from potatoes.When William appeared at Princeton lo plead guilty to the charge against him. he was very indignant over the reflection which had been ca d upon his art as a distiller. Monday he i sued a statement in defense lt;»f his method of making liquor and vouching for its purity.II declares that the statements that concentrated lye and potato'Jc ’ 1 • \ V* .*•///- - A- \ mfi * 1 *» ' i- . ' V • Ju ■ I' r.v. * • c2+;Hpee| 4 were used in the making of hiswhikev are untrue “This is genuine whi key,” he states, “and fur-tlieimor* ii did not contain lye norpotato peelings.”
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Princeton Bureau County Tribune
Princeton, Illinois, US
Thu, Dec 24, 1931
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