Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nicotine - Pipe, Cigar & Cigaret Tobaccos. To verify the claims of "denicotinized" tobacco manufacturers the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment made quantitative chemical tests for the actual nicotine content of certain treated and untreated brands. The percentage...
Winston-Salem, N. C., is a great tobacco-manufacturing community. There Dr. Wingate M. Johnson, who does not smoke, made a clinical study of smoking's physiological effects. He found: 1) Smoking apparently has no permanent effect on blood pressure. 2) There is no foundation for the popular belief that smoking decreases the weight of an individual. 3) The act of smoking, if it affects blood pressure at all, reduces it temporarily. 4) Maternal smoking does not noticeably affect the child or milk...
...waves simmering from the baked ground, the Doukhobors wear heavy clothes. When a cold wind sweeps down from Alaska they often stalk about stark naked. They live on a communistic plan, denounce capital and marriage laws, are called "Dukes" and "Duchesses," eat no meat, drink no wine, touch no tobacco. Their prime weapon of protest is going naked. Their name means "Spirit Fighters...
...Boston politicians with only the good of the city in mind own and manage a theatre where only good, clean acts are presented. It is a theatre to which you may take your Mother, your wife, or your child. There censorship has erected a screen against all filth but tobacco, and has closed all suggestive displays but the stage door. It is located near Scollay Square. It is known as the "Old Howard...
...Manhattan, officers of mighty Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, whose common stock sells at about $6 a share, smiled over a letter and $4 received from a girl worker in a southern tobacco field. Wrote she: "Will you please sell me as little an intrest or shear in your oil wells as $4 to start with and then take what it makes for me and add to the $4 until it amounts to a fifty dollar share for me. . . . Write me once in a while about it so I would know when I would start drawing money...