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Thanks to ample supplies of Cooper's Oxford Marmalade, Lux and Epsom Salts he spent a pleasant six months going reasonably native at Bangangté, where leisurely, mild-mannered King N'jiké II gave up his own house to the visitor and retired with his 80-odd wives to the other end of the village. Author Egerton interviewed fortunetellers and sorcerers, attended dances, investigated charms, drank palm wine (it tasted like flat ginger ale), picked up stray bits of local lore. Sample: as fee, a Bangangté midwife is given the bananas on the tree where...
Last week more than 500,000 Britons gathered around the horseshoe course at ancient Epsom Downs, 15 miles from London-and perhaps 100,000,000 more the world over tuned in on their radios-for the 160th running of The Derby. In the field of 27 three-year-olds, the popular favorite was Lord Rosebery's Blue Peter, a chestnut colt who few weeks before had won the Two Thousand Guineas, first of the season's Big Three races for three-year-olds.† Babbling bookmakers, taking hard-earned bobs from farmers, charwomen, clerks, winked slyly under their...
Midland's brine deposits have brought stockholders dividends as regularly as Epsom salt brings relief. Last year (ending May 31, 1938) the company netted $3,895,269, approximate average for 1934-38. Never before in a merger, Dow has a good reason for this one: it wants a West Coast branch,* and Great Western offers that as well as exclusive rights to cheap processes of making chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, hexachloroethane...
...week, Dr. John Robert Ross, superintendent of the Harlem Valley State Hospital at Wingdale. N. Y., re ported that Nurse Arthur Sandberg had absentmindedly given a patient one-and-a-half ounces of poisonous bromide and chloral (an effective sedative in small doses), instead of a half-ounce of epsom salts, which had been prescribed as a daily laxative. When the patient died three State and local investigating committees promptly descended upon the hospital...
...ever paid lor a thoroughbred is $300,000. Last week Martin Benson, London bookmaker, paid that amount for undefeated Xearco, an Italian horse who won the Grand Prix at Paris last fortnight, his 14th victory in a row. Only other $300,000 purchase price was for Call Boy, 1927 Epsom Derby winner...