Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the incubator, procured and delivered by the Chicago American and New York Evening Journal* reached Elzire Dionne's bare bedroom, one of the quintuplets was dying. Two others were blue. Dr. Dafoe gave them two drops of rum each and popped them into the incubator which was too small to hold all five. The two strongest remained in their roomy clothesbasket, warmed with hot water bottles. Every two hours the trained nurse fed the quintuplets two medicine-droppers of milk, corn syrup and water. The feeding took so long that as soon as the nurse finished with...
...medical history was made. Never before, according to the records, had a full set of quintuplets survived that long. But Dr. Dafoe did not yet consider himself out of the woods. The weakest of the trio in the incubator again turned blue. She revived after two more drops of rum. She and her two companions then developed colic and constipation. Milk of magnesia and warm water enemas made them comfortable. Then all five turned yellow with jaundice. Dr. Dafoe overcame that, put them in the pink again...
...Postmaster General Benjamin Franklin to stage-coach drivers and dispatch riders in 1776. . . . 'There is almost positive evidence.' Mr. Farley, said, 'that at a somewhat later date the Wells-Fargo Co. paid the Pony Express the sum of $7.38 in cash, and a keg of Jamaica rum, to refrain from bidding on the Government contract to carry mail from St. Louis to Fort Leavenworth.' " BUSINESS HAS MINUS TROUBLE Babson Sees Industry Going Forward- Declares It Is Merely Non-Plussed I. B. M. ADDS TO LINE "International Business Machine has announced the addition to its line...
...trade treaty will help Haiti to export more goods to the U. S., notably rum...
...Maryland Hunt Cup, said: "I see that John Beasley won the Punchester Steeplechase in Ireland at the age of 72. His son, who is 49, finished second. So you see, I'm really just a kid at the game. . . . Training? The real ones train on love and rum...