Soap Makers Hunt for Ingredients Across the World
A National Geographic bulletin notes Americans could receive 25 pounds of soap per person yearly if evenly distributed. It traces soap making from colonial backyard kettles to large factories, detailing global supply chains for fats, oils, rosin, pumice, musk, sandalwood, bergamot, lavender, camphor, and various plant oils, with sources spanning India, Italy, Spain, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The article highlights imports like Manchurian soybean oil, cottonseed oil from the southern United States, rosin from the South, and many fragrant and disinfectant oils from distant regions.
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Washington
United States
National Geographic Society
America
France
Lipari Islands
Italy
Tibet
Atlas Mountains
Africa
India
Australia
West Indies
Sicily
Soap Across Borders as Consumers Drive Diversity
The article notes American soap making relies on international inputs from animal and vegetable fats to oils. It cites sources including the United States slaughterhouses, the Mutszshu tree of China, Philippines coconuts, palm oils from Nigeria, Belgian Congo and the Dutch East Indies, and olive oils from Spain, Italy, Algeria and Greece. Next Stop, Norway.
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United States
China
Philippines
Nigeria
Belgian Congo
Dutch East Indies
Spain
Italy
Algeria
Greece
Africa
India
South America
All Aroma Zze House Epicures Salt and Lemon Advice
Epistle of kitchen tips on using salt lemon juice avocado pear salad tinware lard onion juice cabbage odor celery to trap, burnt pan cleaning with clothspin, coolia cutter for meats, grapeleaf and horseradish pickle technique, biscuit dough crust for meat pies and bake until browned.
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Epicures
Hair tonics and barber banter in a New Year tale
In a humorous 1942 piece by Thomas Arkle Clark, McCarthy frets over thinning hair as a barber pitches tonics, while Chapin seeks a distant surgeon for a stiff knee. The column concludes that curing others often proves easier than curing oneself.
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McCarthy
Chapin
Haven
Marinville
Western Newspaper Union
Cork supply and cork-oak trees in Spain and Portugal
Spain and Portugal provide most of the world cork supply. Cork comes from the bark of the evergreen cork oak, which can live about 150 years and is stripped every eight or ten years for harvest.
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Spain
Portugal
Western Newspaper Union
England Jails Many for Debt
Britain imprisons about 24,000 people annually for debt, over 45 percent of prison receptions, amid rising public pressure for reform. Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour and prison expert Margery Fry call for inquiry, noting fines and court orders drive many debt sentences while poverty and unemployment shape trends.
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London
Britain
William Hillman
Universal Service
John Gilmour
Home Secretary
Sir John Glimour
Margery Fry
Secrets of Miss Margaret Le Hand Revealed
The confidential secretary to Franklin D Roosevelt during his New York governorship and early presidential campaigns knew many inside stories. Yet almost all the food secretaries she work with never hear her confidential tales.
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Margaret le Hand
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
Hig
Ban on Hats 1873 Years Old Is Lifted
London St Pauls lifts a long standing scriptural ban allowing hatless women to worship in the cathedral for the first time since it was built. Vergers will not require head coverings at services, and future authorities will not expect hatless attendees to cover their heads.
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London
Photograph of Queens and a Dutch Princess Sparks a Romance
In a genteel drawing room, Arthur Warrington and Louise Maple discuss a portrait of Queen Wilhelmina. The image stirs Arthur’s memories of past loves and a potential union with Louise, revealing tensions between aristocracy, propriety, and desire in a fading social sphere.
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Formosa
Beyrouth
Syria
Reunion
Indian Ocean
Ceylon
Java
Singapore
East Indies
Russia
Cayenne
Brazil
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic
Pacific
Arctic
Antarctic
Redondo Beach
Calif
Norway
Eddie Schroeder
Chicago
Oslo
Thomas Arkle Clark
University of Ilinois
By Charles Sushroe
Lame Bode
Francisco Lentini
Bamberg
S.C
WNU
England
Gappy
Gertie
H. Irving King
McClura Neways
Ios
WNU Borviet
Eiah
Heington
Louise Maple
Arthur
Pettigrew
Rington
Quelhelmina
Holland
Amsterdam
Louise
Louise Este
Mecklenstutt
Atammer Iheliaa
Warrington
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