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...American Medical Association published in its Journal last week an analysis of the nicotine content of certain specific brands of pipe, cigar and cigaret tobaccos...
Nicotine - Pipe, Cigar & Cigaret Tobaccos. To verify the claims of "denicotinized" tobacco manufacturers the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment made quantitative chemical tests for the actual nicotine content of certain treated and untreated brands. The percentage...
Carry smashed a cigar-stand in Coney Island, acted in Elizabeth, N. J., in Hatchetation (originally Ten Nights in a Bar-room), lectured in a burlesque show in Springfield, Mass. Hearing President McKinley was shot, she lost favor by saying "I have no sympathy for this friend of the brewers." When President Roosevelt refused to receive her, she revealed that he was a cigaret-smoker, also that "Government, like dead fish, stinks worse at the head." In 1911 she died in Leavenworth Kan. "Faithful to the Cause of Prohibition; She Hath Done What She Could" - so ran her epitaph...
...awarded $30,000 government compensation for his long jail term. Last week Scot Doyle, still unable to collect his $1,500, remarked: "Slater is not a murderer but an ungrateful dog, and I think the Scottish nation should repay me." Prosperous, clad in voluminous plus-fours, smoking a fat cigar, Oscar Slater received newsgatherers in his suite at a large hotel in Brighton (Britain's Atlantic City). "I really can't repay," said...
...owner, one Hans Nickels, a onetime Kapitan of Munich police, was pursued to Hamburg, arrested. In the sedan was a cigar box. In the cigar box was a pound and a half of smokeless powder and a time fuse. At the same time Hamburg police raided the apartment of a Hamburg bank clerk, found another bomb containing the same type of powder. The arrest of Bombardier Nickels and the bank clerk led to the discovery of a bomb factory in Berlin operated by a certain Erich Timm. Much more important was the discovery that these men and many others were...