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...Present owner: Win. R. Warner & Co. of Manhattan, sellers of Sloan's Liniment, Agaral, Nouspi, Formamint...
...dawn outside, but in the long stables at the New Orleans Fair Grounds where week before last the winter race meeting was at its height, the horses, lying down or standing motionless in their stalls, slept in darkness. The smell in the wooden barns was a smell of hay, liniment and leather. Through these pleasant smells there drifted presently the acrid odor of smoke. A tall chestnut plater flicked his ears and stumbled to his feet, making a sudden muffled thunder in the darkness...
...industry-but in the U. S. alcohol is usually derived from sugar-cane molasses, cheap and easily fermentable. Uses. During 1928 (fiscal year ending June 30) the U. S. produced 92,418,025 wine gallons of industrial alcohol. Alcohol is used in making artificial silks, hair tonics, tooth pastes, liniments & lotions, ether, perfume, vinegar, tobacco, photographic supplies. Makers of soaps, shellacs, varnishes, polishes and lacquers are alcohol-users, so are makers of fungicides, insecticides, deodorants and disinfectants. When alcohol in eau de Cologne is applied to an aching head, the alcohol evaporates rapidly, uses up the heat of the body...
First let us serve the nectar, and then to take the good taste away let us all have a good swig of Sloan's Liniment. For such is the method of attack, when dealing with a piece such as "The Madcap". The nectar is in the summing up of the performance of Mitzi, upon whose shoulders hangs the entire production. This lady, reminiscent of the Duncan sisters in "Topsy and Eva", is really highly amusing. Regardless of when she was at her prime, presumably before what Professor Merriman chooses to call "the late unpleasantness", she still can put her personality...
...mouthful of Sloan's Liniment. The rest of the piece is pretty weak. It is billed as "a comedy with music" which is exactly what it is. The comedy is good; the rest is mediocre. The music is fair, the sets likewise, and the rest of the cast passable. The chorus, while executing a few good dances, is such as would most probably offend even the taste in pulchritude of the fastidious patrons of the Howard Athenaeum...