The historical framework is strong; confirm exact legal wording and modern applicability with primary regulatory sources.
Mitenbuler presents these reforms as consumer-protection measures and as outcomes of industry factional conflict.
Bottled-in-bond rules connected whiskey to one distiller and season, required warehouse aging and 100-proof bottling, and identified the maker. Later pure-food disputes formalized labels that distinguished straight whiskey from blends and rectified products.
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Chapter Nine — Purity and Populism
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Evidence
Bottled-in-bond rules connected whiskey to one distiller and season, required warehouse aging and 100-proof bottling, and identified the maker. Later pure-food disputes formalized labels that distinguished straight whiskey from blends and rectified products.
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Start: 110
End: 115
Source section: Chapter Nine — Purity and Populism
Context
Mitenbuler presents these reforms as consumer-protection measures and as outcomes of industry factional conflict.
Annotation
The historical framework is strong; confirm exact legal wording and modern applicability with primary regulatory sources.
Verification
Status: Verified
September 29 fresh audit: matched to supplied PDF sheets 110–115. These are PDF sheet numbers, not the print-edition pagination used in the index. Verification concerns source fidelity, not independent historical/scientific corroboration.