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...Laxative-Buy it by the Jar-Ford...
...story I've never forgotten. "A mother, leaving her children alone for a few minutes, warned them not to stuff beans into their ears or noses. They'd never heard of the trick before. The minute the mother was out of sight they ran for the bean jar. "Human nature doesn't change. Our boys and girls are being ruined with the poison they sell for liquor nowadays. I know of things too terrible to tell-hip liquor at dances, lovers' lanes, roadhouses, increasing illegitimacy. And I have a daughter 16 years old." Illinoisans were amused...
...Hamburg Amerika motorship Rhineland was plowing a cautious course along the jaundiced flood of the Yangtze-Kiang, below Hankow, China. In the Rhineland's hold lay tons and tons of starchy little white pellets, a heavy cargo of beans. There was a crunching jar and trillions of the beans spilled about or shivered in their places as the Rhineland collided with the Japanese S. S. Mitsuki Maru. Then quiet again, and a trickling of yellow river water in among the beans. Like the droplets that crawl into men's beards to soften them for shaving; like the droplets...
...Little John likes raspberry jam and he knows his mother has a jar on the top shelf of the pantry. When his mother goes out, he gets it and covers his face with it. She catches him and tells him if he does it again she'll break his neck...
...crowd protested and the official's bodyguard attempted to disperse them. In the melée which followed the frog was dropped, the jar shattered, frog ground to jelly. Infuriated, the mob attempted to rush the guard, belaboring them with fists, sticks and feet. The military official, immobile of face, ordered his men to fire. Eight Chinese fell dead, one a priest...