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[[underlined]] strong liquors [[/underlined]] "aquavit" which is obtained either from potatoes or cereals. [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] Lately the Government Chemist has advised the Government that a [[underlined]] cheaper source of alcohol can be obtained from sulphite waste liquors [[/underlined]] as found abundantly in [[underlined]] pulp mills [[/underlined]] and that the thus obtained [[underlined]] ethylalcohol [[/underlined]] can easily be [[underlined]] purified [[/underlined]] as well as [[underlined]] the usual grain alcohol. [[/underlined]] This would save the Government about [[underlined]] 500000$ [[/underlined]] annually. But the [[underlined]] public at large is protesting, and calls the alcohol  from the wood [[/underlined]] pulp mills, "woodalcohol" [[/underlined]] and anybody who does not feel well attributes it to "wood alcohol".
There is [[underlined]] no prohibition here only regulation [[/underlined]] of the sale of alcoholic
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beverages. [[underlined]] Beer and ordinary wines [[/underlined]] can be obtained at all [[underlined]] times in any quantity. Strong wines as port and sherry and madeira  only with a bona fide meal and one 1/4 bottle per person, unless  special permit has been obtained  from Government [[/underlined]] bureau which is only given to trustworthy persons. One 1/4 bottle [[underlined]] Swedish Punch [[/underlined]] can also be obtained [[underlined]] with each meal. [[/underlined]] as well as one small glass of aquavit.  
I saw [[underlined]] no drunken persons during all the time I was in Sweden. [[/underlined]] Went out for [[underlined]] long walk [[/underlined]] around the town clean well kept streets and buildings.  [[underlined]] People  seem healthy, physically good looking, dressed simply but with good taste and substantially. Men and women have good physique, and  look more like the better class of Americans. Stores well run [[/underlined]] and everything