Looking Back: January 6 - Times Union

Smack dab in the middle of the front page was this headline: “Girls, You May Now Smoke in Albany Hotels — Most of You Don’t Want to, Both The Ten Eyck and Hampton Find, but the Privilege Is Yours If You Want to Exercise It.” According to managements at those and other hotels in the city, no woman had thus far “gone quite so ahead — or behind — as her sisters in London and publicly hit the pipe,” although an occasional woman or girl had smoked a cigarette at both establishments, generally during the after-theater hours.

“Sure, we let ‘em smoke,” said manager Alfred Rennie of the Ten Eyck. “What else can we do? They’re doing it everywhere else, so why not here?” David M. Pepper, manager of the Hampton Hotel, said much the same thing, indicating that the decision whether to smoke was entirely up to the women themselves. Rennie pointed out that the Onondaga Hotel in Syracuse, owned by the same concern as the Ten Eyck, had already begun allowing women the option to smoke, and even opened up their “men’s cafe” to female patrons. This required the installing of an eight-man “strong-arm” squad to protect against the kinds of violence and robbery found in large New York City hotels. Similar safeguards had been put in place at the Ten Eyck to curb any “rough stuff,” according to Rennie. “None has ever been attempted, nor do we anticipate any, but we are guarding against even the improbable.”

Times Union, Jan. 6, 1920

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Vitamin C book all the rage

Capital Region residents, lured by Dr. Linus Pauling’s book “Vitamin C and the Common Cold,” had ransacked area drugstores for Vitamin C. The Nobel Prize-winning biochemist from Stanford University claimed massive doses of Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) would keep the cold away. The Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council recommended the following daily doses: children, 40 mg.; women, 55 mg.; and men, 60, mg. but Dr. Pauling said 250 to 10,000 mg. would ward off the viral attack. Medical experts did not agree but local pharmacies said sales of Vitamin C were “skyrocketing.” Sam Portnoy, pharmacist and manager of the Hall Drug Store at Stuyvesant Plaza, said, “I would estimate the increase in volume on the sale of Vitamin C is 10 times what it usually is.” Area residents, tortured with sniffles, sneezes and other respiratory ailments, hoped to reduce mid-winter noseblowing and coughing.

Times Union, Jan. 6, 1971

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