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...Nowadays adjuncts to the Century run to and from Boston and Cincinnati...
Whiskey Test. To the University of Cincinnati came 300 volunteers who drank good whiskey and then let their alcoholized breaths pass through a solution of 50% sulphuric acid containing a trace (1/3%) of potassium dichromate. This solution is ordinarily reddish yellow; alcohol vapor makes it change to a bluish green. The more whiskey the Cincinnati bibbers swallowed and the more drunk they became, the more bluish green became the solution. There is so definite a relation between degree of intoxication and the sulphuric acid-potassium dichromate tint, that Cincinnati judges have used its evidence in arrests for driving motor cars...
There were two McGuffeys and their series (five times revised) was last reprinted by the American Book Co. (Cincinnati) in 1901. In 1835, Dr. William Holmes McGuffey, then president and professor of "Moral and Intellectual Philosophy" at Cincinnati College, was asked by the Messrs. Truman & Smith, local publishers, to prepare a series of eclectic readings for the young. This he did, in 18 months, paying one of his students $5 to copy out the selections...
These four volumes were enlarged in 1838 and in 1841 the publishers felt they must issue a still more advanced reader. But Dr. McGuffey had left Cincinnati. So they engaged his smart brother, Alexander H. McGuffey, 16 years younger, a lawyer and Hebrew scholar. He it was who contributed the Rhetorical Guide which, later called McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader, easily rivaled all the original four readers for popularity and inspired the elder brother to compile a prodigious Sixth. The Guide contained selections chosen to improve inflection and memory as well as morals and sentiment. There were the "Village Black...
American Manufacturers of Toilet Articles decided at their Atlantic City convention last week to direct considerable of their 1927-28 advertising to men. Men, said F. A. Adams of Cincinnati to his associates, spend $60,000,000 yearly for cosmetics-perfumes, toilet waters, cold creams and talcums. A favorite talcum has been one that imitates a coat of tan. A new perfume intended for men is golden brown and has a bouquet reminiscent of Scotch whiskey. In the face of robust custom, the problem of advertising cosmetics to men is no less difficult than the problem of cigaret-makers advertising...