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After the interrogation had proceeded a while and Dr. Cowles had said that Swift had habitually used large quantities of bromo seltzer and that at the sanitarium he had received only chloral hydrate as a nerve sedative, Mr. Ullman snapped at Dr. Cowles: "You've had experiences of this kind [i. e. suicides] before, haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dr. Cowles Investigated | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...honor of their late-lamented citizen, Gaylord Wilshire. The conception has infinite possibilities. Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga might readily be called 'Mount Cardui,' while Nahant Bay (off Lynn, Mass.) could be rechristened to immortalize the omni- present Lydia by changing it to Tinkham Bay.' 'Bromo Seltzer River' . . . for the Patapsco River at Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Macfadden Peak | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

...machine. Wine of Cardui is for "female complaints." It is a not unpleasant beverage. Lydia E. Pinkham's daughter, Mrs. Caroline Pinkham Gobe, and her grandchildren Lydia Pinkham Gobe and Arthur Wellington Pinkham (company president) still sell her vegetable com- pound for "female complaints." The very wealthy Emersons (Bromo Seltzer) live much abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Macfadden Peak | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

Emerson's Bromo Seltzer, Inc. High in Baltimore's skyline is the bottle-capped top of the Bromo Seltzer Tower building which contains the offices of the Emerson Drug Co., manufacturers of Bromo Seltzer since 1891. Last week a new holding company, Emerson's Bromo Seltzer, Inc., was formed to take over Emerson Drug and the Maryland Glass Corp. Once making only Bromo Seltzer bottles, Maryland Glass devotes now only about 25% of its business to the famed blue bottle, has an annual capacity of 72,00,000 bottles. Over the company will still preside rotund, hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Deals: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...soda fountains, lunch counters and, in five stores, complete restaurants, expect a full line of drugs. Customers whisper, their faces impassive as possible, hygienic and illegal requests to the Happiness clerks. The clerks on such frequent occasions are embarrassed. Frankly they explain that at their counters they have only bromo seltzer, aromatic spirits of ammonia, bicarbonate of soda and epsom salts, nothing more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: United Cigar's Drug Stores | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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