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...cleaner condition than the bed. ... In the kitchen it was very evident that John Barleycorn reigns supreme. . . . Fifteen or 20 bottles of beer and ale, one quart of whiskey (unopened) and a fifth of gin, partly consumed, adorned the buffet. The table was strewn with dirty beer and whiskey glasses...
...guarding the abandoned Matchless Silver Mine, once worth $1,000,000 to her husband, the late wealthy U. S. Senator Horace Austin Warner ("Haw") Tabor (TIME, March 18, 1935). To an eager crowd were offered a dozen silver nut picks, a pearl-encrusted fan, 50 silk handkerchiefs, a quart of rye whiskey, dozens of photographs, a gold safety pin which once secured the diapers of Baby Doe's daughter Rose Mary Echo Silver Dollar Tabor. A silver dollar made into a locket containing Silver Dollar Tabor's picture drew the highest bid: $26. Finally, the auctioneer hoisted...
...Manhattan men urged that in addition to rest, thrombosed patients be practically starved following such a heart attack. Said they: "Very little food is given in the first 24 to 72 hours, particularly if the patient is in shock. The fluids are limited to [one quart] unless the patient is perspiring excessively. When nausea or vomiting is present, food is avoided; if it persists, bits of cracked ice and sips of charged water are given. The diet is slowly increased so that in five to seven days the patient is receiving a 750-850 calorie diet. An endeavor is made...
...SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY--SAUERKRAUT per quart...
Deciding eventually that the Count could not absorb the pus in the abscess, Dr. Castillo called into consultation Dr. Ricardo Núñez Portuondo, crack surgeon, onetime president of the Cuban Federation of Medicine. Surgeon Núñez lanced the abscess. Within 48 hours out oozed a quart of accumulated blood. In a subsequent hemorrhage the Count lost another pint of blood. Packing the abscess cavity with gauze failed to stop bleeding. Drugs failed to stop it. Nothing seemed able to make the patient's blood clot. He was at the point of dying from hemophilia...