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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 28, 1907
Page
6
The article advises meticulous care for hands and rubber gloves, urging thorough washing inside and out with soap, air drying, and talcum. It stresses clean hands after work, cold cream, and careful drying to prevent chapping, plus use of old gloves for light tasks and Borax or benzoin for daily care. It also covers nails, cleanliness, and cautious cosmetic routines, with stray reader questions about cucumber preparations and depilatory methods.
Advice collected for readers on bust reduction complexion clearing hair lightening and facial treatments. Includes recipes using iodide potassium vaseline lanolin tincture benzoin and various herbal mixtures. Also covers methods to grow height and revive facial firmness with skin foods and exercises.
A reader seeks advice on removing troublesome facial hair after electrolysis worsened the condition. A response cautions against failed electrolysis and promotes an old depilatory recipe using sulfate of soda chalk brown walnut shells alum oil and a scented filter oil as a remedy.
The article offers home remedies for oily hair and dandruff. It suggests a tonic with cantharides tincture ammonia glyerin thyme oil and rosemary combined with rose water to rub on the scalp until dandruff disappears. It also describes a daily dry lotion using bicarbonate of soda borate of soda eau de cologne alcohol tincture of cochineal and distilled water to produce a crisp auburn finish.
Medical guidance advises stopping torax and the rat and avoiding oily brilliantines. Keep hair loose two plaits at night, brush and smooth, never sleep with hair up. Try lotion for oily hair and the dandruff cure, as well as massage and continual brushing for scalp health.
Readers discuss early gray hair and remedies. A physician's old formula combines sugar of lead lac sulphur bergamot essence alcohol glycerine tincture of cantharides ammonia in water, applied to clean scalp. Caution notes urge not to use if scalp is irritated or abraded.
A reader asks if facial bone or nose shape can be altered before adulthood and how to proceed. The reply notes limited self effort can influence youth shape but stresses consulting a specialist for accurate, safe treatment and warns against incorrect methods.
Fragmentary line suggests a discussion or instruction about reducing bust size or improving figure. Not enough clear names, places, or events to identify a specific person or institution.
The document outlines Dr Vaucaire's remedy for enlarging the bust. It lists ingredients including galega extract, lacto phosphate of time, fennel ointure, and simple syrup with measures and a recommended dose of two tablespoons with water before each meal.
A reader requests the newspaper publish a remedy for parasites in children and an exercise for straightening rounded shoulders. The home remedy involves soap and a toxic metal preparation used as a jelly like mixture, to be applied to the scalp followed by a rinse. Also suggested are braces from a specialist and consulting a physical culture teacher for exercises.
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