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...treated were young, and in most instances finely developed men. They were orderly and well be haved. All were free of active venereal disease. Most were admitted in a state of exhaustion with badly soiled clothing and dirty bodies heavily infested with lice. . . . "Bayonet and sword cuts with frequent powder burns gave evidence of close fighting. There were no victims or evidence of chemical warfare. A majority of the wounds were through-and-through bullet wounds with small sharply defined point of entrance and large jagged exit. The wounds were invariably infected, many teeming with maggots. ... As noted...
...water; b) swab throat with a mixture of one part iodine and five parts glycerine; c) spray nostrils.with 1% solution of ephedrin sulphate, or with a diluted solution of atropine sulphate if cold is very severe; d) castor oil or citrate of magnesia purge; e) saturated solution of baking powder...
...suggest it would be a good Idea if the government or the judges would get together and put a stop to this, my wife is beginning to be a cult fanatic or religious fanatic, . . . they don't comb or straighten there hair or use paint or powder-don't wear no silk stockings, just buy his paper he write and he tell them to get all in the cult, he is going to give all colored people work, if you follow him you will have fine automobiles and everything. . . . my wife say she came in from the meeting...
...raucous noise from a jazz orchestra, sometimes only to an inner rhythm of their own, around and around, slowly, slowly. The members of the audience kept close watch on those five faces, haggard with six months fatigue, indisputably young but drawn and lined beyond the power of rice powder and rouge to conceal; the audience watched the faces for signs that would show the near collapse of one or another of the youths. If the audience tired of watching it was amused by seeing two buffoons push one another over, spit at one another, make lewd jokes, or it could...
...Philadelphia, Negress Maude Roberts gave $60 to "Prince Ali Baba" for a "vanishing powder" so her sister could vanish from a Washington jail, had Prince Ali Baba (one Grant Reid) arrested when she failed to vanish...