TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25,1941.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Seventy-five years ago if you suddenly developed a toe throb, the proper place for you to go wouldn't have been to the hospital to get some pink pills on your five-buck hospital fee. Instead you probably would have had to make a call at the neighborhood pharmacy.
One of the first, if not the first, such establishment in the state of Kansas has been rebuilt, natural size in the downstairs department of Spooner-Thayer museum.
Complete with original prescription case, brass and iron mortars, weights and balances, jugs and bottles, and motions of the times, this pharmacy is one of the most outstanding exhibits of general interest to be found.
Typical of the period are the elaborately framed advertisements hanging over the shelves of drugs and pills. Here is advertised Himrod's cure, guaranteed to cure asthma, catarrh, whooping cough, croup, hay fever, consumption, and common colds.
Another advertises Hostetter's Stomach bitters, a sure remedy for sickness and deviltion—also a preservative of health. The celebrated HHH Horse medicine is advertised as being safe, sure, and mysterious. It promises to cure every kind of pain and illness in man and beast. Also, as a side line, it clears up all external diseases.
Perched on shelves over the bottles of poison (bottles shaped and painted to resemble the shrouded figure of death) are huge glass containers of rock candy, licorice, pink peppermints, and red and white striped candy sticks.
On a corner shelf sits a quart jug labeled "leeches." These blood suckers were used to drain off the surplus blood supply of the sick person—the blood being thought the cause of the sickness.
This cure-all-ill shop of 1866 provides a chuckle and an education at the same time.
British Attempt To Cut Axis From Supplies
Cairo,—(UP)—A "phantom" British column was believed streaking across the desert 250 miles south of a raging tank battle today in a colossal flanking thrust to cut off virtually the whole axis Africa corps from its supply bases.
British middle eastern headquarters maintained silence concerning the "phantom" column. It refused to confirm or deny the admission in Rome that the British force, striking west from Jarabub Oasis, has already overwhelmed the Italian garrison at Gialo Oasis, only 200 miles from El Agheila and the Gulf of Sidra, its objective.
The maneuver involves a drive across more than 400 miles, half by desert track from Jarabub to Gialo and the remainder of the distance to the coast, by highway.
It would split Libya into two segments and cut off Gen. Erwin Rommel's forces now engaged in a desperate fight for existence around Rezegh.
Success of the surprise maneuver would place a British striking force athwart the coastal road, 175 miles southwest of Benghazi and only 400 miles east of Tripoli.
Basketball season opens Dec. 17.
Melvin Opens Lectures Mondau
FREE WEDNESDAY, 9 P.M. TO SOME ONE IN THE AUDIENCE 3 CHICKENS — 2 DUCKS 1 GOOSE — 1 TURKEY All Fowls Are Dressed, Choice Milk-fed, Corn Fattened.
How much do you know about your University? Do you know how this Hill was chosen as the University site? Do you know why the University was built at Lawrence? Do you know the story of the "cairn" and the "hearth"?
F. E. Melvin, associate professor of history, will discuss the early history of the University in his talk, "Vision That Became a Fact," at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Kansas room of the Memorial Union building.
Work of the first committees that attempted to write K.U.'s history, difficulties encountered in securing historical records and pictures, and the part the University has played in the life of Kansas are among the subjects that Professor Melvin will discuss.
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Twenty thousand billiards in 1 hour, 41 minutes, and 8 seconds without missing a shot!
That is the record of Charles C. Peterson, world's fancy shot billiards champion who will appear in the game room of the Memorial Union at 8 p.m. next Tuesday. Known as the magician of the green table, Peterson will include in his exhibition a variety of fancy and trick shots as well as an explanation of the fundamentals of the sport.
Almost every mature Sequoia tree in existence has been struck at least once by lightning.
The smokestack on top the University power plant is the fourth tallest structure in the state of Kansas.
The billiardist has a total of 550 different shots in his game. One of the trick shots that will be displayed by Peterson is his dollar shot. Placing a dollar on end between two pieces of billiard chalk, the fancy shot champion strokes the dollar from the rail to the opposite side of the table. The dollar then returns between the two pieces of chalk.
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12:30 Closing Hours Tonight
Closing hours for all University women will be 12:30 o'clock tonight and Sunday. No men will be allowed in women's houses after 8 o'clock tonight.
Doris Twente President, W.S.G.A.
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NOW,REMEMBER MOMMY! IF ANY TROUBLE STARTS, YOU DIVE UNDER THE TABLE! I'LL JOIN YOU THERE!
TODAY
ENDS Wednesday
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