Word: coughings
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Over 4000 pennies were contributed by the Freshmen, other gifts including Canadian and Italian coins, blank checks, cough drops, cigarettes, a pair of dice, an empty cartridge, and one peppermint Life-Saver...
...days of the gold rush to California, when ships laden with optimists were dashing madly from the East coast to the West, around Cape Horn, in ISO days. Eastern papers blazoning forth "California advertisements"-sales of trunks, guidebooks, tools, cough-drops, coffee grinders, collapsible boats, patent medicines, rubber garments- every conceivable article a gold digger might conceivably require-even one enterprising concern announcing: "Ho for California! Last, not least! Persons going to the gold regions are seriously advised to take, among other necessaries, a good lot of monuments and tombstones. A great saving can be effected by having their inscriptions...
...tobacco, nor will it amuse itself by opening and shutting windows and letting in cold draughts. The several things which are done will become apparent to the acute observer as the reading progresses," and beyond all else, gentlemen, as you value your lives, do not cough...
...London society will have a new hostess in the person of the Duchess of York. Her Royal Highness was prevented from making her début as a hostess last season owing to her indisposition from whooping cough...
...Chicago a lecturer who was addressing an audience and having his remarks broadcast at the same time was interrupted by the arrival of a messenger boy. The boy brought 25 cents from a radio listener to buy cough drops for the assembly, whose coughing disturbed...