"Names make news." Last week these names made this news: From oldtime Cinema Sharpshooter Tom Mix British customs officials at Plymouth took five rifles, eight horse pistols, will keep them until he gets a license or leaves the country.
Hearing that British Drug Tycoon Philip Ernest Hill (Beecham's Pills. Ltd., Veno Drug Co.) was taking the cure at Carlsbad, the London Investor's Review printed a joshing jingle. Excerpt: I've tried all Beecham's products, I've absorbed the stomach powder . . . Iron Jelloids, Veno's Cough-cure (but my cough got only louder) . . ....
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