Photo shows federal officials destroying 1800 earthenware bottles of imported Chinese rice wine, called ng ka py, under court order. The wine had been stored in a Los Angeles bonded warehouse for four years, while the government battled for courts to rule it a beverage, not a tonic, and finally won. Photo dated: May 26, 1928.
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