Cray Parker is in jail charged with shooting Gould Kendall in Kingville (Albemarle negro suburbs). The negroes are supposed to have been drinking canned heat. Kendall is painfully wounded, but not seriously. The details of the quarrel leading to the shooting could not be learned at the time of going to press.
From the front page of The Albemarle Press—A Stanly County Weekly of Character—Published Every Thursday. Dec. 12, 1925.
“Canned heat” was a type of jellied alcohol sold in cans and used as portable fuel for heating and cooking. During Prohibition, people sometimes used it as a substitute for drinking alcohol. But the alcohol in canned heat—Sterno—included methanol—also known as wood alcohol—which could lead to poisoning, blindness or death. Jellied alcohol purchased in cans was strained or diluted to make it liquid.
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