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Liquorless Era Greeted in Broadway Cafes With Little Ceremony; Few Farewell Parties Church Bells Ring in Joyous Acclaim Persons of Many Creeds Gather in Hempstead for Service of Thanksgiving Demon Rum, who has had more funerals of late than even the most robust cat could expect, had the last and positively final obsequies said over his bier along Broadway last night. The service was as dolorous as even the most mournful could ask. In fact, the occasion was so gloomy that there was scarcely any ceremony at all.

In the month of December alcohol consumption increases as many people celebrate the festive season. But how does your drinking measure up to the average from countries around the world? Find out below if you are similar to a boozy Belarusian or a teetotal Kuwaiti.

William Henkle had more than 20 alcoholic drinks in his system when he attacked police with a chain saw outside his Forty Fort home last month, toxicology tests reveal. Henkle, who was killed by a flurry of police bullets following the attack, had a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.495 percent, according to test results recently received by the Luzerne County coroner's office. The 40-year-old's blood-alcohol concentration was more than six times the amount (0.08) to be considered legally drunk in Pennsylvania. No traces of illegal drugs were found in the two blood samples and one urine sample tested at National Medical...

New York Post DEATH IN THE AIR By MURRAY WEISS and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN A Brooklyn man who went berserk aboard a JFK-bound airliner died Friday night after being handcuffed and held down by seven athletes who had come to the aid of the flight crew. William Lee, 48, got out of hand aboard American Airlines Flight 4 from Los Angeles after flight attendants told him he couldn't have any more booze, airline spokesman Tim Smith told The Post. Lee, who had told the Boeing 767 cabin crew he was despondent over a breakup with his girlfriend, was declared dead...