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...safe to steal some of their mother's rice-powder? Mrs. Ellison was out laundering at a neighbor's house. Monk got the powder and sprinkled it upon the "daid corpse's" face. Then, whoopIng, he led his followers back to the yard. In 15 minutes Mrs. Ellison came in and laid her clean clothes down on a chair. What she saw on the floor gave her a slight start, but her nerves were good; she chuckled and moved nearer. As she bent over the "corpse" uncertainty replaced the laughter in her generous face; her hand, moving...
Having flung the gage of battle, I. L. Lyon & Sons, Inc., makers of Dr. Lyon's Tooth Powder and Dental Cream, went on to declare...
...about the fate of their teeth. Only 1 in every 20 had pyorrhea-only 5.7% between the ages of 35 and 44; only 7.1% between 45 and 54; only 7.4% past 54. Such statistics are all against pyorrheapanic. . . . For SIXTY YEARS the makers of Dr. Lyon's Tooth Powder have believed that the purpose of a dentifrice is to encourage the regular daily brushing of the teeth. . . . For sixty years the pleasing wintergreen flavor* in Dr. Lyon's Tooth Powder has made new friends and held old ones to the habit of daily brushing. . . . A dentifrice should provide...
...drizzled through his sieve, he spied a black, circular object. A ring. Spattered on his shoes lay the reliquae of a ghost. Over in Brooklyn, at the Navy morgue, officers shook their heads. One cannot identify dismembered legs with fingerprints. The bodies had been found thick around the first powder magazine which exploded -bodies of heroic soldiers who had defied an exploding arsenal with water buckets. Little metal knicknacks were pondered on with shrugging shoulders. Unidentified. Meanwhile, other Navy committees investigate...
Last week for nearly two days 16-in. armor-piercing shells, big shells, little shells, powder, TNT, nitroglycerine, depth bombs, whined and slashed wantonly, smashed hamlets in all directions, popped $93,000,000 worth of Government property, slaughtered many a U. S. soldier, ripped shell holes, thundered, wounded and injured over a hundred, far and near. Fleeing refugees scuttled to remote stations, men hid in shell holes, swam the Lake, lay unsuccored on the smoking fields...