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[1904
Results of the Prosecutions- The results of these prosecutions were
immediate and widespread, for at once the Central Protection Society of the
Licensed Victuallers, after consultation with their legal advisers, issued two
notices, one of which was to be used as a general notice on licensed premises,
and the other as a label for bottles. These were as follows:-
NOTICE.
Brandies sold at this establishment are sold as a mixture
of spirit obtained by distillation of wine from the grape, and
of other spirit not so obtained.
BRANDY.
This is sold as a mixture of spirit obtained by distillation
of wine from the grape and of other spirit not so obtained.
Other notices were also issued by societies and importers, of which the
following is a sample:—
BRANDY.
Customers are respectfully informed that unless grape
brandy is specially asked for, the brandies supplied at this
establishment consist of pure grape brandy mixed with
highly rectified foreign spirit.
In the course of a few days these notices might be seen in nearly every
public-house bar in London, and, after a short interval, in thousands of publichouse
bars in the provinces. On the other hand there were not a few places
where the proprietors, who had always sold a genuine article, affixed notices
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