New Facial Beauty Therapy Spreads from London Hospitals
Reports from Goodmayes Hospital describe facial massage and beauty treatment as a cure for melancholia improving mood and self respect. Other institutions including St John’s Aylesbury Mendip Gloucester plan to adopt the technique with nurses training in a Bond Street parlour. Convicts in Texas are also receiving plastic surgery to aid rehabilitation.
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Goodmayes Hospital
St. John’s Hospital
Aylesbury
Mendip Hospital
Wells
Coney Hill
Horton Road
Gloucester
Bond Street
Texas
Safe-Crackers Blast Door Behind Tampa Office Safe
In Tampa Florida a burglary gang blasted a safe door after finding the combination written outside. The blast damaged the space and yielded only ledgers and insurance cards, while another mob destroyed a safe with explosive and money inside during a separate incident.
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Tampa
Florida
London
Murder on Police Station Steps in Albania and Vladivostok Sights
Lecturer Miss Esylt Newbery recalls Albania’s vendetta punishments on police steps in Tirana and a priest led funeral in Vladivostok with a child bearing a coffin. She also notes a Russian doctor fee custom and a Japanese advert about fur coats ending with dental notices.
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Miss Esylt Newbery
Albania
Miss Newbery
Tirana
Vladivostok
Japan
Uniform Car Prices Proposed by Campaign Backed by Eisenhower
The Hartford Courant argues for fixed f.o.b. prices for new cars to end price shopping and haggling. It cites Cleveland and past ads showing explicit model prices and warns that current auto pricing hides true costs. The piece endorses Monroney Thurmond list price bills and calls for nationwide consistency from Hartford to San Diego.
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Cleveland
the Courant
Detroit
Monroney
Thurmond
Eisenhower
Hartford
San Diego
Hartford Courant
English Traveler Describes Public Bath Humiliation Incident
An unnamed English woman recounts a chaotic bath scene in Kedzu where no partitions separate six baths. She witnesses a family bathing nude, confronts an overbearing innkeeper Fukuda, and endures repeated interruptions by a quick-witted coolie who returns as she finishes.
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Kedzu
Fukuda
Smugglers Pass Boots Across Frontier in Algeria
Smugglers moved 10 000 army boots past vigilant French authorities in Algeria by mislabeling men sizes as boys boots. An alert officer spotted boots marked 3 as actual size 8. Traffic signs warn for safety and compliance.
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Leas
Algeria
McKee Shredder Harvester Ad and Pool Offer
McKee Shredder Harvester ad promotes a one-man machine for hay and silage with broad usage. Includes a pool construction offer and a request for $2 to receive literature, listing McKee Gros Limited in Elmira Gnitzroe as contact.
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Ontario
McKee
McKee. Gros. Limited
Elmira
How to Test Fast Dye Color and Bake Substitutions
A guide explains dye fastness by dampening a cloth piece and rubbing on white paper to see staining. It notes substituting cocoa for chocolate uses three tablespoons cocoa per square of chocolate and extra butter. It also covers smoothing curdled custard with iced water and a whipped egg, and shrinking drawn-work thread by boiling the spool for about an hour without harming gloss.
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Canada
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Que
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Rockwood
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California
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Tweddle Chick Hatcheries Ltd
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F. C. Petree
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