Word: potions
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...Fair. Two months ago the fair board sold him to Elephant Trainers Bayard Gray and Jack O'Grady for his board bill ($200). Messrs. Gray & O'Grady kept him in a barn in Portland, tried to teach him manners. Last month he had a cold, drank a potion reported to contain ten gallons of moonshine whiskey, got the hiccups and more publicity. Last week he was in the newspapers again...
...young wizard is properly upset and so is the financial world. The woman plays with the inexperienced man. The man ends up by following her on board a curious trans-Atlantic liner. A travelling library on the subject of amours, Douglas' valet, mixes a potion that upsets everything. An orchestra plays; the passengers indulge in an intricate ballet and song while ships officers and winches look on in unmoved silence. The usual almost happens then the news of a financial panic makes everything end up as it should. The steamer and its passengers arrive in a fog at Southampton...
...Yellow Jacket, Utah, Lloyd Cantsee and Truman Hatch, Piutes, dug up a superstition supposed to be dead and a squaw's body really dead. Of dead fingernails and toenails they made a powder to put in the drinking water of their enemies. Of the superstition that this potion would cause its quaffer a loathsome disease (diabetes mixed with scurvy) they had high hopes. Caught at their hex, they were brought last week by tribefellows before a court at Price, Utah. Their defense: "We were only having fun." Their sentence: one to five years in gaol...
...lives in Westchester County. N. Y., wears costumes decoratively Russian, is famed for her even disposition. I Want My Wife is a preposterous, unhappy little farce about a shy bachelor whose inheritance of a fortune depends upon his marriage before a stipulated date. He is given a sleeping potion, and when he regains his senses an attempt is made to persuade him that he has espoused a local debutante. Later it develops that. while suffering from amnesia in Philadelphia, he has already taken a wife. The various states of unconsciousness and semiconsciousness experienced by the hero of the entertainment...
...fifty cents extra, a guest will be admitted with the holders of the books. This arrangement worked out well last year at the Arena, and should prove even more attractive this year, for the balcony seats at the new Garden are so placed as to make every potion of the playing surface visible from them...