Word: coltsfoot
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...vetch, lady's thumb, common speedwell, field milkwort, Lyon's turtlehead, ragged robin, calypso, common burdock, spotted knapweed, hairy willow herb, purple saxifrage, red baneberry, slender glasswort, toadshade, climbing bittersweet, birdsfoot trefoil, moth mullein, smooth false foxglove, showy rattlebox, prince's plume, agrimony, squawroot, mouse-ear hawkweed, rattlesnake weed, coltsfoot, tickseed sunflower, Jerusalem artichoke, sneezeweed, swollen bladderwort, clammy ground cherry, purslane, muskflower, rough-fruited cinquefoil, climbing boneset...
...they sold out in less than five minutes. On Thursday huge cans of cucumbers were available for about half the average monthly wage. Bottles of beer and slivovitz -- hoarded or, as many mutter angrily, stolen -- are available at outrageous prices. Puzic bought toothpaste, soap and a bundle of broad coltsfoot leaves. "I've never eaten it before," she sighed with a dubious glance at the tough, shiny weeds normally used for treating asthma. "But what else is there?" In Sarajevo outright starvation is not a threat, though hospitals are reporting cases of scurvy...
Last week there was a run on herb stores for a smoking mixture (coltsfoot and clover leaf, scented with lavender or rose leaf) commonly used by sufferers from asthma or catarrh. Said London's deluxe tobacconist, Alfred Dunhill: "No self-respecting smoker would smoke a herbal mixture." But thousands of Britons were mixing the sweetish stuff with their pipe tobacco; it cost only fourpence an ounce, about one-tenth of the price of tobacco...
...should be an excellent medium for household advertising. Thus far Grit's advertising has been predominantly the tawdry patent medicine type. Excerpt from an advertisement of "The Medicine Man" in the anniversary issue: "An Indian Chief told my Father that a tea made by taking two teaspoonsful of Coltsfoot would cure bleeding lungs...
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