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Book The Tribune Almanac and Political Register for

Download or read book The Tribune Almanac and Political Register for written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tribune Almanac and Political Register

Download or read book The Tribune Almanac and Political Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Strychnine   Gold  Part 1

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenneth Anderson
  • Publisher : Independently published
  • Release : 2021-07-25
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book Strychnine Gold Part 1 written by Kenneth Anderson and published by Independently published. This book was released on 2021-07-25 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the huge addiction treatment industry which flourished in the United States between 1890 and the advent of Prohibition in 1920. The story begins in Russia in 1886, where a number of doctors discovered a relatively effective pharmacological treatment for alcoholism. Although this Russian discovery was published in countless major English language medical journals, it was entirely ignored by the US addiction experts of the day, who eschewed pharmacological treatments, and instead preferred to lock people up in inebriate asylums where they could be subjected to religious coercion. However, an obscure railroad physician and patent medicine salesman named Leslie E. Keeley, who lived in the dusty prairie town of Dwight, Illinois, read about the Russian treatment in a medical journal and decided to give it a try. Much to his surprise, the Russian treatment proved highly effective, and, by 1891, Dr. Keeley was treating upwards of a thousand patents a day at the Keeley Institute in Dwight. Keeley was a salesman and a bit of a Barnum; he always claimed that he had invented the cure himself after decades of painstaking research and he called it the Gold Cure, claiming that his secret ingredient was gold. Of course, there was no gold in the gold cure other than the gold which lined Keeley's pockets. However, the treatment was relatively effective, and by 1893 there were over 100 Keeley Institutes operating in the United States and abroad, and hundreds of copycats were operating imitation gold cure institutes. The Keeley Gold Cure was even adopted by the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and the US Army. The Keeley treatment took 28 days and required hypodermic injections four times a day for the entire period. On the other hand, the Gatlin Institutes which opened in 1902 and the Neal Institutes which opened in 1909 used a form of aversion treatment and advertised themselves as three-day liquor cures. Competition between the gold cures and the three-day liquor cures in the first two decades of the 20th century was fierce and intense. Then, as the United States entered World War One in 1917, the demand for addiction treatment suddenly dried up for a variety of reasons, and the majority of these proprietary cure institutes had shut down before the enactment of Prohibition in 1920, although the parent Keeley Institute in Dwight remained in operation until 1966. This book contains the never-before-told tale of how these proprietary treatment institutes grew into a huge industry, flourished, then finally faded away as the United States entered World War One. Part One of this book covers the Keeley Institutes, Dipsocura, the Bedal Institutes, the McKanna liquor cure, the Wherrell gold cure, and the Hagey Cure. Part Two of this book covers the Morrell Cure, the National Bichloride of Gold Institutes, the Oppenheimer Institutes, the Tyson Vegetable Cure, the Willow Bark Institutes, the Telfair Sanitarium, the Connelley Cure, the Murray Institutes, the Gatlin Institutes, the Neal Institutes, the S. B. Collins Cure, and the D'Unger Cure. Part Two also contains appendices discussing strychnine, belladonna alkaloids, "jag cure" laws, and more.

Book Tribune Almanac and Political Register

Download or read book Tribune Almanac and Political Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New York Daily Tribune Index

Download or read book The New York Daily Tribune Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Kid

Download or read book The Kid written by Bill Nowlin and published by Rounder Records. This book was released on 2005 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ted Williams was a giant of a man, the likes of whom America may never see again. Enshrined in Cooperstown in 1966, in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Ted Williams was also the first living athlete to be honored with his own Museum - the Ted Williams Museum and Hitter's Hall of Fame.

Book Roughing It

Download or read book Roughing It written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-13 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Mark Twain's own years of "variegated vagabonding" in the West, this comic narrative offers a virtual grab-bag of tall tales, folklore, beast fables, travelogue, local color, autobiography, history, geography--even statistics. This new critical edition of Roughing Itsupersedes the 1972 edition published in the Works of Mark Twain over twenty years ago. It is an entirely new undertaking, by a different group of editors. Together they have made extensive use of newly discovered historical and textual materials, particularly biographical documents which illuminate how Mark Twain gave literary shape to his actual experiences in the West. This edition includes the more than 300 illustrations Mark Twain commissioned for his book. It also provides six new maps: two for Nevada in the 1860s and four to help trace the Clemens brothers' cross-country stagecoach route. The editors provide a comprehensive introduction that will supplant all previous accounts of how Mark Twain wrote and revised his second long book. Fully supplemented by the textual apparatus, the edition presents a complete record of Twain's revisions and is sure to become the standard text of Mark Twain's great Western adventure. Editorial work was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and by a generous gift from the L. J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation.

Book Geology of the Lees Ferry Area  Coconino County  Arizona

Download or read book Geology of the Lees Ferry Area Coconino County Arizona written by David A. Phoenix and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared on behalf of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published with permission of the Commission.

Book My Adventurous Friend

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  • Author : Douglas, Anderson
  • Publisher : Publication Consultants
  • Release : 2015-11-10
  • ISBN : 1594335796
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book My Adventurous Friend written by Douglas, Anderson and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Adventurous Friend is based on accounts of my friend Hagen's life, as he related it to me, and of the adventures we enjoyed together in Alaska. We would reminisce while sitting around a campfire in some wilderness area during our hikes and gold prospecting ventures. We could be debating current events and somehow our talk would drift back to events of earlier times. Over the years, piece by piece, I learned almost everything there was to know about my friend. Hagen had a varied and adventurous life beginning in wartime Germany and, by a circuitous route, eventually migrated to Alaska in 1973. Hagen had a longing for adventure and was never satisfied with the status-quo. He was strong, tenacious and once his mind was made up he would seldom deviate. In his mind, if it wasn't difficult then it wasn't worth doing. He always said he was born one hundred years too late to be a real pioneer but he sure did his best to emulate them. Hiking to our gold claim—forty miles from the nearest gravel road—and making it there alone in the dead of the Alaska winter was almost enough to satisfy his craving for adventure.

Book Geological Survey Bulletin

Download or read book Geological Survey Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ohio. Auditor of State
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 846 pages

Download or read book Annual Report written by Ohio. Auditor of State and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wings of Gold

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  • Author : Beverly Weintraub
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2021-12-15
  • ISBN : 1493055127
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Wings of Gold written by Beverly Weintraub and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Feb. 2, 2019, the skies over Maynardville, Tennessee, filled with the roar of four F/A-18F Super Hornets streaking overhead in close formation. In each aircraft were two young female flyers, executing the first all-woman Missing Man Formation flyover in Navy history in memory of Captain Rosemary Mariner — groundbreaking Navy jet pilot, inspiring commander, determined and dedicated leader — whose drive to ensure the United States military had its choice of the best America had to offer, both men and women, broke down barriers and opened doors for female aviators wanting to serve their country. Selected for Navy flight training as an experiment in 1972, Mariner and her five fellow graduates from the inaugural group of female Naval Aviators racked up an impressive roster of achievements, and firsts: first woman to fly a tactical jet aircraft; first woman to command an aviation squadron; first female Hurricane Hunter; first pregnant Navy pilot; plaintiff in a federal lawsuit that overturned limits on women's ability to fulfill their military duty. Leading by example, and by confrontation when necessary, they challenged deep skepticism within the fleet and blazed a trail for female aviators wanting to serve their country equally with their male counterparts. This is the story of their struggles and triumphs as they earned their Wings of Gold, learned to fly increasingly sophisticated jet fighters and helicopters, mastered aircraft carrier landings, served at sea and reached heights of command that would have been unthinkable less than a generation before. And it is the story of the legacy they left behind, one for which the women performing the Navy’s first Missing Woman Flyover in Mariner’s memory owe a debt of gratitude.

Book The Tribune Book of Open air Sports

Download or read book The Tribune Book of Open air Sports written by Henry Hall and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tribune Almanac and Political Register For

Download or read book The Tribune Almanac and Political Register For written by Horace Greeley and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: