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...what the effect would be," James ( "Jimmie") Donahue, Woolworth 5?-&-10? heir, cousin of Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz. stepped onto a balcony of his Rome hotel, shouted "Viva Ethiopia " squirted a syphon of soda water at a group of young Fascists. Effect: two Government agents presently escorted Playboy Donahue to the Italian frontier...
...what Nazis took to be the long-awaited break. For what seemed to them exceedingly occult reasons, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia abruptly took action which had the effect of barring Germans from being granted New York City licenses as masseurs, locksmiths, itinerant musicians, operators of newsstands, keepers of fruit or soda water booths, bootblacks on outdoor stands, operators of employment agencies, ping- pong galleries, pool and billiard parlors, shooting galleries or bathing establishments, public porters, dirt-cart drivers, wardrobe concessionaires, charity entertainment managers, hand-organ grinders and operators of junk shops, junk carts or junk boats...
...George Washington, whose wife spent considerable part of her wartime grass-widowhood at Virginia's warm springs, tried to buy Saratoga Springs, failed. Gideon Putnam bought 300 acres around the springs, built a hotel, made the place a health resort. In 1825 John Clarke, who started the first soda fountain in Manhattan, began to bottle and sell carbonated water from Saratoga. By 1883 Saratoga hotels had a capacity of 12,500, sheltered 100,000 costive, gouty, giddy visitors a summer season. To entertain the visitors the Saratoga racetrack was built and gambling establishments were opened. To contain a Saratoga...
Manufacturers of soda water pumped so much water out of Saratoga Springs for the sake of the carbonic acid gas that when Dr. Simon Baruch got there the bathing establishments were in a sorry fix. Dr. Baruch found that to take a carbonated water bath he had to fill the tub from bottles of expensive Seltzer water which had been charged from deep-flowing Saratoga Springs water pumped to the surface by greedy bottlers. The State put a stop to that by buying practically all the mineral springs, letting them idle until the water table rose high enough to spurt...
...Saratoga springs spurt supercharged soda water. The kind named Geyser contains bicarbonates of sodium, calcium, magnesium and iron It is antacid, aids digestion, relieves gastric distress. Other Saratoga waters contain chlorides of sodium (table salt), potassium, lithium, ammonium. The kind called Coesa is a mild laxative; the kind called Hathorn, a vigorous cathartic. Dr. Baruch after drinking "not wisely but too well, learned a lesson which I have often taught others -that these waters must be prescribed with care...