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Speeches. Mrs. Eleanor Bolling Byrd (mother) : "Next time you start on any expeditions someone is going to chloroform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Byrd Return | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

Several days ago Trixie's master arranged to put her out of her misery via chloroform. Afterwards he took Trixie to the garage to await suitable burial weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A. S. N. E. Meeting | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...Buffalo Natural History Museum, had walked Nancy Bowen, 66-year-old Cayuga Indian from the nearby Cattaraugus Reservation. She had confronted Mrs. Marchand, small, slight, with a question: "Are you a witch?" Jestingly Mrs. Marchand replied: "Yes." Thereupon Nancy Bowen beat her down with a 10? hammer, stuffed chloroform-soaked paper down her throat, left her dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Witch Murder | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

Alcohol's first effect is euphoria, a sense of wellbeing. Mental inhibitions are released. The drinker is gay. Later comes depression, the narcotic effect of alcohol. However, alcohol is not the only stimulant which acts that way. Strong tea and coffee act the same. So too, tobacco, chloroform, ether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drunkenness | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...Atlanta, one Walter Dorsey, Negro chicken thief, explained his technique to the judge: "I just sprays 'em with chloroform. Then stand back and wait. In about five minutes they flop off the roost and are ready for my sack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Tail | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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