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only 1.65 per cent of alcohol and without any trace of malt 

 as well as having all the appearance of containing a sugar 

 house by-product, was labeled "Budweiser Lager Bier" and 

 then went on to give the full German label of the Anheuser- 

 Busch Brewing Association of St. Louis. In this particular 

 case the dealer from whom the sheriff seized the goods was 

 fined $25 and costs because "the contents of the package as 

 originally put up had been removed in who'le or in part and 

 other contents had been placed in such package". The charac- 

 ter of these labels is illustrated by "Excelsior Lager Beer. 

 Extra Quality. Brewed Expressly for Export. Suftolk Brew- 

 ing Co., Boston;" "Banquet Imager. Brewed by Hanley Si. 

 Casey, Massachusetts Breweries Co., Boston, Mass." ; "Pfaff's 

 Beer. Massachusetts Breweries Co., Boston, Mass." ; "Manhat- 

 tan Style Extra Lager Beer. Bottled expressly for Joseph P. 

 Spang, Boston ;" "Export Manhattan Style Lager" ; "Imperial 

 Lager Beer, Boston, Mass." : "Philadalphia Style Stock Ale, 

 Specially brewed and bottled" ; "Red Star Pale Ale, Boston, 

 Mass." ; "Philadelphia Pale Ale. Bottled expressly for hotel 

 and family use" ; "Pilsoner's Style Beer. Extra Quality. 

 Brewed expressly for export. Massachusetts Breweries Com- 

 pany." 



These fermented beverages analyzed more or less alike, car- 

 rying between two and three per cent of alcohol, something 

 less than five per cent of solids and usually quite heavy per- 

 centages of glucose or sugar house syrups. 



The combined action of the sheriffs and the food executive 

 has probably in no wise diminished the sale of this class of 

 materials. These are, however, at present practically all cor- 

 rectly labeled and are sold for what they are — imitation beer. 



Soda Water Bottling Establishments. 



During the years 191 1 and 1912 a good deal of preliminary 

 work was done in the way of inspection of the soda water 

 bottling establishments in Maine. Many of these were found 

 to be in pretty poor shape. These inspections resulted in a 

 large amount oif correspondence and a correction of the most 

 unsanitary conditions. 



