Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1886 — Citrate of Silver. [ARTICLE]

Citrate of Silver.

Thomas Kay urges that bottles containing citrate of silver be stowed away in life-boats. Seven ounces of the citrate will turn enough sea-water into drinking water to supply a man for a week. Congressman Hottk, of Tennessee, educated himself while working at the cabinetmaker’s trade and by reading by firelight at night.