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The Daily Republican,
Monongahela, Pennsylvania, February 14, 1910
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The Daily Republican,
Monongahela, Pennsylvania, February 14, 1910
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Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico, December 1, 1935
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The Day Book, Chicago, Illinois, August 20, 1912
Stick a lit tobacco pipe, filled with laudanum soaked linen scraps, in your ear!
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The Robesonian,
Lumberton, North Carolina, March 1, 1904
Wikipedia says:
Lactucarium is the milky fluid secreted by several species of lettuce, especially Lactuca virosa, usually from the base of the stems. It is known as lettuce opium because of its putative sedative and analgesic properties. It has also been reported to promote a mild sensation of euphoria, and at least one fatality has occurred during an attempt to use it for intoxication. Because it is a latex, lactucarium physically resembles opium, in that it is excreted as a white fluid and can be reduced to a thick smokable solid.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, April 25, 1897
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Medical Hints, Designed for the Use of Clergymen, and Others, in Places Where Professional Advice Cannot Be Immediately Procured, 1820
Opium is often a very great comfort to mankind from the relief it affords in many diseases which cannot be cured.
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The Daily Republican, Monongahela, Pennsylvania, February 29, 1896
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, November 2, 1896
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The Evening Review, East Liverpool, Ohio, April 3, 1921
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La Plata Home Press, Missouri, July 26, 1879
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La Plata Home Press, Missouri, July 4, 1879
A lady offered $100 reward for the recovery of a pet white rat in the Syracuse (N.Y.) Courier. The reporters learned that she was a morphine eater, on a visit to her father… the pet rat fell out of the bosom of her dress… the lady can not sleep till she has another pet rat… the rat was perfectly tame and devoted to it’s mistress, who is rational upon all other subjects except this pet and morphine or opium.
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The Illustrated Book of Manners: A Manual of Good Behavior and Polite Accomplishments, 1866
We would not pass any law against the use of tobacco, arsenic, opium, or alcohol, so long as the consequences were confined to the persons using them.
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A Social Pirate, The Illustrated Book of Manners: A Manual of Good Behavior and Polite Accomplishments, 1866
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“Hitting the pipe”, Vancouver Daily World, Canada, February 23, 1918
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The Spokane Press, Washington, March 24, 1903
The stimulant loses it’s power and opium smoking or the use of morphine or chloral follows.