Word: sassafrases
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It was Ed's mother, an English teacher at the University of Arkansas, who was the dominant artistic force in his family. She encouraged Ed in his talent for drawing, gave him an upstairs bedroom for his carpenter shop. There, as a boy of 14, Stone designed the structure...
Rebate. In Jackson,Miss., former State Beverage Co. Employee Wade Bowman, 24 confessed that he had robbed the firm of $5,000, explained: "They took $8 out of my check every week tor taxes, and that's too much." Do As I Say. At Sassafras River, Md. U.S. Fish...
Last spring, as the sassafras shoots came out, so did rumors that Barkley might run for governor or Senator. He could have stopped the talk with a sentence or two, but he did not. By last week the buzzing had spread all over Kentucky and could be heard in Washington...
Dixie Treat. In Washington, B.C., the Bureau of Internal Revenue announced that it had seized some Alabama moon shine whisky, selling for $2 a pint, made from the following ingredients: half a gal lon of water, one quart of orange juice, two pints of gin, one small jar of sassafras...
Old wives' tales hold that sulphur & molasses, forced down squalling young throats in early spring, provides a needed thickening of the blood, thinned down by winter. Farmers' almanacs advise rural readers to drink sassafras tea and rhubarb brews to cleanse the body of winter's ills.