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...Englanders, being true devotees of the weed, generally brought with them a supply of the Connecticut leaf which they would take to the cigar maker in Wheeling to be rolled into cigars. . . . The New Englanders mostly traveled in Conestoga wagons which was shortened to "stogie" by the Virginians and the travelers became known as the "stogie fellers" and the product of their tobacco as "stogies...
...agony, William Capps hung on for about a quarter of a mile. Then he dropped from the train and crawled into a weed clump. His foot was a pulp and he was afraid of gangrene. Gritting his teeth, he pulled out his penknife, carefully cut off his foot, twisted his sweater around the stump to stop the bleeding...
Heap big eyewash as cinema entertainment, the possible influence on U. S. young of Susannah of the Mounties is not to be taken lightly. In Susannah Shirley smokes. She enjoys her first whiff of the weed with a young Indian hostage called Little Chief (Martin Good Rider), passing back & forth a small but sure-enough pipe of peace. Whatever the effect of this may be on the behavior of Shirley's moppet public, its effect on Shirley is to make her act sick. The effect on stolid, 13-year-old Martin Good Rider is imperceptible. A Blackfoot Indian...
...from hospitals. Patients should choose their hospitals, but leave the choice of their surgeon up to the chief of staff. This system is practiced in the "justly famous" Mayo Clinic. If it were put into general operation, says Dr. Bernheim, surgeons would become more highly specialized and hospitals would weed out inefficient men. Of course, "surgeons won't like it ... but men ought not to want to make great sums of money . . . for cutting into human flesh...
...Wizz" and "Denison Swing," supposedly featuring the rather tiresome but flashy two fingered piano of Lionel Hampton, really shows the fine drumming of Cozy Cole and sax by Chu Berry . . . "Shangri-La" (Les Brown) has some unusual and beautiful changes, though it sounds somewhat like "Chant of the Weed...