Reports of Drug Orgies Probed After Inmate Arrest
Philadelphia reports of drug orgies in the house of correction emerged from a matron's letter and the arrest of War ry Fisher a 48 year old clerk. Investigations by Dr J B Spencer led to confessions from three women implicating Fisher who allegedly acted under manipulation by a blonde from New York. Evidence included a glove packed with heroin and a delivery of talcum powder packages.
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Court Denies Subpoenas Tough on Buffalo News Editors
In Buffalo New York Supreme Court Justice Marcus refused the Corporation Counsel Rann’s bid to issue subpoenas to Buffalo Evening News editors Marc A. Rose William F. Connell and Frank Bloomer to appear before a grand jury over articles on alleged vice conditions. The judge stated he was strongly impressed that it would be unwise to heckle and annoy the press. The remarks followed a facetious aside about a butcher shop price for a duck roast and the flesh and the devil.
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Yellow Spread for Bread in Bride’s Doorstep Folklore
A passage notes that the sight of a white bride evokes emerald satin and snowy tulle, while the educated eye seeks a yellow spread for bread. It argues custom hardens taste, until reason prevails, claiming spreads have long been colored healthy yellow to satisfy visual prejudice.
Nucoa spreads offers snow white coconut based product
Nucoa presents a snow white spread described as made from coconut meat and satiny smooth in texture. It notes a coloring capsule to make the product golden, though the coloring does not affect flavor or nutritional value, and suggests consumers may choose white or golden.
Preezone Promises Quick Corn Relief for Cures
A vintage advertisement touts Preezone as a painless corn treatment. It claims instant relief from hard and soft corns and between the toes, with easy removal and no irritation, sold by druggists in small bottles for a few cents.
Napoleonic Wars And The Last War Compared
Lord Curzon argues in Current History Magazine that the post Vienna Peace era 1816 brought deep distress. Expenditure halved from 106 million to 53 million pounds while prices and wages fell, debt rose, and unemployment grew. The era saw widespread bankruptcies, crop failures, and repression. He notes similar woes today but underscores nineteenth century suffering was far greater, with cash payments resuming by 1821 and years of conflict continuing after Waterloo including Greece, Russia Turkey, and revolutions in Italy Egypt and Spain.
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Will bars sons from big colleges in will
Buffalo N Y June 22 By their father's will George W Pierce 19 and Daniel C Pierce 18 of Hamburg are excluded from entering a large college The will of Daniel Pierce probated today states I have arrived at a definite conclusion that it is by no means a safe plan of education to send a son to any of the large colleges and it is my wish that my sons be not sent to such a college believing that there are other means of obtaining an education as good and at the same time wa ter is to the quality of the man produced
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