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1916

A Derelict

March 25, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

There Was a Mystery Connected With It. By DWIGHT NORWOOD It is many a year since the United States merchant marine was a thing to be proud of. Some persons living remember the clipper ships of the middle of the last century, with their tall masts and sky-scraping sails. Confederate privateers rendered shipping goods on … [Read more…]

Posted in: California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, History, Sea Stories Tagged: 1916, DWIGHT NORWOOD, pirates, romance of the sea, sailing ships, sailors, sails, Sea stories, The Margaret Thurston

HOW TO CURE DRUG FIEND – 1916

March 14, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

HOW TO CURE DRUG FIEND OF THAT PERNICIOUS HABIT By DR. LEONARD KEENE HIRSHBERG A. B., M. A., M. D. (Johns Hopkins University)   Los Angeles Herald, 18 February 1916 WHEN mortal man was endowed with free will, that was the beginning of human creation. Much was left to him, such as the cultivation, discipline, … [Read more…]

Posted in: California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, History, Politics Tagged: 1916, addict, addiction, anti-narcotic, Belladonna, Christlike, citrate of magnesia, Cocaine, Cures, dispensaries, drugs, Fiend Incarnate, habit-forming, Heroin, hospitals, narcotic, Purgatives

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