How Can I Cleanse Skin Without Soap and Water
A reader asks about skin cleansing without soap. Use cold water on cotton, moisten with witch hazel and toilet water tonic, rub with cold cream, and use fresh cotton as it soils.
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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 12, 1944
Page
6
A reader asks about skin cleansing without soap. Use cold water on cotton, moisten with witch hazel and toilet water tonic, rub with cold cream, and use fresh cotton as it soils.
Britain declares no potato shortage since the war began and claims self support in this staple. Captain J Mollett of the Food Ministry's Potato Supply Division notes the crop could reach about 7 000 000 tons with 950 000 acres under cultivation.
The R A F Transport Command announced its planes have carried nearly 29 000 wounded soldiers from France and the Low Countries to Britain since the Normandy invasion. No planes were lost in these missions. Nearly a third of recent casualties to British hospitals were American soldiers.
A reader asks etiquette rules for carriage seating, visiting a leaving fiancé, cooling hot food, fork hand use, engagement gifts, and acknowledging formal acquaintances. Answers state the woman sits on the right in a carriage if possible, with consent for a closer acquaintance to swap seats. a fiancée may visit but not for slight acquaintances. sip water to cool hot food. right-handed use fork, left if preferred. yes to engagement gifts within budget. greeting strangers on the street is optional.
The 1939 report shows Holland and its overseas territories holding the fifth place among global trading powers, reflecting its strong maritime and commerce stature before the war.
Los Angeles factories mass produce self righting all metal life rafts for the American merchant marine. Each raft carries 20 men with extensive gear and supplies and can withstand a 45 foot drop into water.
A collage of wartime humor features a dusky soldier explaining artillery to civilians with a punchy line about a big gun. It also includes quick jokes about cleaning windows and a ball game dispute with a proud war worker, plus brief exchanges about mistaken identities.
Time notes a wartime refrain on coupons as British women recall a sad tune of rationed goods. By year end the average purchases include one dress two gloves four ounces of knitting wool two yards fabric one pair of knickers and smaller shares of undergarments with limited vests and nightdress.
Britain will continue conscription with 18 year olds being called up as European fighting ends. Recruits will train and join the Army of Occupation, relieving long service men. More relaxations for education and apprenticeship completion are expected.
The Kitchener Record argues Canada’s prosperity stems from private capitalism under democratic rule. It acknowledges faults but says the system is strong and popular. It urges a sound plan to return to peacetime with fewer abuses and a cooperative public to make it work.
A Navajo judge wrote to a son wounded in action advising a practical soldierly ethic. If leg wounded and cannot march you should notify the army and return home. If not wounded you should rise quickly and keep fighting the Japanese.
A traveler from Berlin recalls a grim wartime joke: after Germany's defeat, Hitler and Goering were said to hang side by side as wet criminals. Goering allegedly quips that the war was decided in the air, a dark reminder of aerial battles.
In 1943 crop failures across the United States caused a severe broom straw shortage, disrupting domestic broom production and related agricultural supply chains during wartime.
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