Word: caledonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ginger Ale. At Toronto and Edmonton, Ontario, J. J. McLaughlin Ltd., and at Montreal, Quebec, Caledonia Springs Corp. Ltd. make ginger ale for Canada Dry Ginger Ale Inc. to sell all over the world. Canada Dry owns both the Canadian companies; the two had & have combined as Canada Dry Ginger...
...Caledonia, Ohio, he used to belong to the "Chain Gang." This small village, close to Marion, Ohio, held also a band of boys calling themselves the "Stunners." The two gangs fought continually and thus became lifelong friends. Dan Crissinger of the "Chain Gang" was obliged " to milk cows before school, feed cows and chop wood after school. And one day Dan Crissinger literally "monkeyed with the buzzsaw" in his father's lumber mill. His hand was crippled so badly for farm work that his father saw the wisest thing would be to train the boy's mind. Therefore...
...ginger ale yearly. In 1926 he sold 1,360,000 cases; sales already made this year warranted his announcing last week a stock dividend increase from $2 to $3. Besides selling dry ginger ale the company sells "Sumoro Orange," a concentrated orange drink. Recently it bought out Caledonia Springs Corp. Ltd., of Canada, bottlers of "Magi" and "Adanac" table waters...
...Louis Danval, a pharmacist at Paris was convicted of poisoning his wife with arsenic, after a quarrel. Chemists had found one milligram of arsenic in the woman's body. M. Dan-val was sentenced to life imprisonment in New Caledonia. Then in 1902 Gabriel Bertrand, French chemist, announced that arsenic is habitually found in the human body. Danval appealed, was released. He appealed also for rehabilitation but the French courts refused to grant this in 1906. By 1921 new evidence was available and he again appealed. The French courts appointed a committee of experts to report. They announced that...