Word: kaolin
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...notable user of cotton paper as stationery is Louisiana's Governor Huey P. Long. His letters go out as a cambric-like cloth sized with kaolin, with a smooth web finish and high tensile strength. (The letterhead carries the State seal in blue-a floppy mother pelican feeding her young encircled by "Union, Justice & Confidence.") Explains Governor Long: "There is agitation down this way that we should enlarge our use of cotton goods and some of we more or less super-cotton patriots, including fellows like myself who have picked cotton 16 long hours...
...means high. Kaolin, the white clay used in medicine and porcelain is Chinese for high hill, where the clay is found...
Clay-Eating. Mistresses who, with mystification, have watched their colored maids, newly migrated from the South, gather clay from the back yard and then chew it, learned last week from inveterate conners of the Journal of the American Medical Association that pure clay, kaolin, kept in motion with fluids, is beneficial in Asiatic cholera, bacillary dysentery, chronic ulcerative colitis and acute enteritis. In some cases the clay carries away intestinal bacteria, in others mixes with their toxic products. The Journal warns inexact thinkers that many other supposedly beneficial effects of clay-eating are spurious...
...Name one disease in which the eating of kaolin (clay) is beneficial. (See MEDICINE...