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...Alva Edison at his home in West Orange, N. J. was the recipient of the Rotary International Service Medal "in appreciation of a life of service to science, the arts, and humanity." While newsmen, photographers, waited after the ceremony he told a story: a man who suffered from a liver complaint went to Los Angeles for cure, recovered, started a sanitarium of his own. "Eighteen years afterward, the man died," declared Inventor Edison, "but before they could bury him his liver had got so strong they had to kill it with a club...
...Lambs' difficulty. Immediate cause of financial embarrassment was the penury of actor members who, pinched by unsuccessful seasons, could not pay their house charges. Shepherd Royle jovially diagnosed the present condition of show business as similar to the plight of a legendary unfortunate who was "shot in the liver, lights, vitals and lower part of the saloon." The audible cinema he considered a contributory ailment...
Partial starvation is used as a therapeutic measure in the treatment of many diseases. After the War, in Germany, it was noted that there was a decrease of diseases of the following type: chronic nephritis, ailments of the stomach and liver, Bright's disease and diabetes, all of which are associated with good living and rich food...
...after bringing United Drug and Sterling products together, Mr. Liggett quickly bought the companies which make Life Savers candies, Three-in-One oil, Ipana toothpaste, Sal Hepatica. Ingram's shaving cream, Fletcher's Castoria, Dr. W. B. Caldwell's Syrup of Pepsin & Herb Laxative Compound, Andrews Liver Salts...
...another gutter last week a gold medal, returned it in the same way to U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge. On his goodwill tour of French industrial cities Mr. Edge received the medal (commemorative) at Strassbourg, famed home town of pâté de foie gras (fat goose liver) a French delicacy greatly appreciated by most U. S. citizens...