Word: heroine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan police last week arrested nine men for selling narcotics, chiefly heroin, on the streets. The arrests indicated that a "dope ring" had parceled out the island to pedlers, whose sales aggregated $100,000 weekly. A few days before these arrests the police discovered the ring's arsenal-guns and other murderous .instruments in an apartment two blocks from sociologically famed Henry Street Settlement in the lower East Side. The weapons were used to destroy poachers who sneaked into allotted narcotic districts...
Discovery and arrests confirmed the contention which Charles Henry Tuttle published last week: "It is recognized that there is no other habit-forming drug more baneful than heroin, and it is apparent that the Federal enactment prohibiting its importation or manufacture in this country has met with little or no success. To date, all known investigations and prosecutions instituted since 1924 established that the sources of supply of heroin are not attributed to its illegal manufacture in our own country, but are traced to the smuggling of the drug from foreign countries...
...surveyor he found: "The forbearance of women to pains" lets them endure the pangs of drug withdrawal; bad associations were to blame for almost every drug user in New York; nine out of ten drug addicts use heroin alone, or in combination with morphine, opium, cocaine, laudanum or paregoric (opium derivative, oldtime baby soother...
Actress Jeanne Eagels, restless and intemperate, died last October in Manhattan at the Park Avenue Hospital, a private psychotherapeutic sanitarium. Last week the New York Daily Mirror revealed, for the first time, the official findings of her autopsy. An overdose of heroin killed her. The Daily Mirror's article was a piece of journalistic enterprise designed to vex the publishers of the New York Daily News, its rival, and of the nickel weekly Liberty. For Liberty the week before had commenced a vivid, sympathetic biography of Jeanne Eagels, "genius and drunkard?artist and hellion?poet and devil?she battled...