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Rebuffed by the 43 votes he received, Thomas J. Daly, "The Taxpayers' Prayer for Mayor," was still singing his campaign song as he waited for the returns in the Election Commissioners' Office last night. Taking many slugs at a bottle of "cough medicine," Daly announced that he had already begun his fight for the nomination two years hence...
...break between the French and British armies where they joined in the devastated regions of the Somme. Gas soon shrouded the British batteries and their fire ceased. A little before 9 a. m. masses of German troops released from the Eastern Front poured through the fog toward General Cough's British-battalion after battalion, column after column, complete with field bakeries, ammunition trains, medical units, until more than 1,000,000 men were in motion, and advancing columns stretched back 45 miles behind the German lines. On a 75-mile front the Allied lines gave way as the British...
Called to the home of Louis Faulkner, in the tiny town of Idabel, Okla., last week, young Osteopath George Kenneth Fisher found Charles and Larrie, the four-month-old Faulkner twins, choking from whooping cough. Only oxygen administration could save them, but there were no oxygen tents within 50 miles...
...evening, for instance, as Anna was sitting by her father's bed, she heard dance music floating over from the house next door. She longed to join the party, but sternly repressed the wish. Afterward, whenever she heard the strong rhythm of dance music, she began to cough, almost as though she were beating time. Most astounding part of the case, said Dr. Breuer, was this: as soon as Anna understood the origin and nature of her symptoms, they disappeared...
...which does not contain any unfortunate air-rifle connotations. In a drugstore not far from Harvard Square someone who evidently combined a penchant for window trimming with an unmistakable patriotic zeal arranged a display window with various medicines and flags. Squarely in the center of this nest of cough-and-cold remedies, salves, and tonics a soulful white cross had been arranged. And, at the intersection of the cross was inscribed...