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...were instructed to give a kiss to the person whose name was at the top "and surely he may find a true love among the 15,000-odd trading kisses." In Philadelphia, racketeers began hiring staffs to send out chain letters to "sucker" lists. Just starting is a "Send-Pint-of-Whiskey" series...
...bismuth does not ascertainably retard digestion, they discovered, after they set to work on three doctors and their wives, one dentist and one medical student. The most surprising fact that Drs. Maile and Scott discovered was that milk is one of the most tedious foods to digest. A pint of rich raw milk takes 6½ hours to get out of the stomach. A pint of boiled milk requires five hours. A pint of water requires only 45 minutes to get through...
...liquid diet was administered through a nasal catheter for two months. It consisted of four coddled eggs, one pint of milk, one pint of cream, the juice of six oranges, cooked cereal, thin custard, vegetable soup and brewers' yeast. After the fever subsided, one-half ounce of cod liver oil was added. She gained weight so rapidly that the caloric value had to be reduced. When swallowing returned, the catheter was placed in her mouth. She still drinks in this manner, lying on her back with her head turned to the side...
...change did not please everyone, Many an artist grumbled at seeing his page cramped down to pint-size. One cartoonist was so upset he deliberately drew his characters humpbacked, explained he could not help it since the ceiling had been pushed down on them...
...through a narrow hole under pressure (600 lb. per sq. in.), spun down the curls of a valve and spring, and emulsified to form cream which spurts from a metal teat. From two oz. of butter and four oz. of milk the cream machine can make approximately one-half pint of coffee cream for 6¢less than half the cost of a half-pint of dairy cream. Heavy cream which sells for 22¢ per half pint can be made for 9¢. Big milk & cream retailers like Borden and Sheffield Farms snorted last week at the idea that the cream machine...