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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 08, 1906
Page
7
A reader inquiry discusses improving posture and a slim waist through simple exercises using rings, weights, and head balance while avoiding strain. Another note asks about restoring gray hair color with a non permanent treatment. The fashion section forecasts a muted palette with gray tones and colored accessories for winter street wear, urging restrained elegance and varied fabrics.
A concerned reader asks about dandruff and thinning hair and whether to use walnut stain or a cochineal hair lotion. The advice promotes a dandruff cure with tincture of cantharides and ammonia, a rosemary egg shampoo, vigorous brushing, scalp massage, renewed quinine tonic, and cautions that color may not be the issue but vitality.
The text describes using hydrogen peroxide as a facial bleach by applying a small amount with linen once or twice daily. It also lists a homemade Anti-Kink Hair Pomade using castor oil suet wax and acids, mixed over low heat and cooled before use. It notes both products can be obtained from druggists.
Medical note details a physician advised remedy for gray hair restoration. Ingredients listed include sugar of oats lac sulphur and essence with tincture in water. Instructions warn stopping if scalp irritation occurs and reference a prior Q&A under the letter M S K.
I have read many of your recipes but I cannot understand the rest of your question. Please clarify what you need.
A reader seeks a hair removal remedy. The article notes morphyarete of soda with chalk mixed to a paste, applied 1 to 5 minutes, then scraped off. If burning occurs remove immediately and wash. use cold cream or oil to prevent irritation.
A reader asks how to darken light eyebrows and lashes with a stain that lasts and won t wash off. The message describes a homemade formula using Indian ink and rosewater, and notes the writer wants a brown, non fading result suitable for school and avoiding friends notice.
A garbled excerpt centers on Virginia and a physician linked to an impaired appearance. The text reads as a rough transcription with disrupted phrases and lacks clear events or names beyond broad geographic and professional hints. The fragment offers little coherent story or factual claim.
The article recommends wearing a well fitting corset and braces to fix rounded shoulders, with exercises to strengthen the back and slim the hips. It describes lifting a chair high, bending, and re lifting to build muscle, breathing during the movement. It also suggests a home remedy for perspiring hands using subnitrate of bismuth and zinc pleate.
Mrs A G recommends a simple lotion for inflamed skin to ease constant facial redness and itching. The mixture uses Berto acid 1 dram, distilled water with hazel 4 ounces, applied with old linen or absorbent cotton three to four times daily.
Advice says peroxide of hydrogen can bleach facial hair. Obtain at any drug store in small quantities for a few cents. Use nightly and morning with a soft rag until the desired effect is seen and consider it absolutely harmless.
A fragmented 19th century style note describes making a hair tonic using bichloride of soap dissolved in boiling water to form a jelly like mix. It advises wetting the scalp and applying the soap mixture as a shampoo though the instructions are unsafe and unclear. A later portion references alcohol and other ingredients with no clear amounts.
A fragmented ad style notice lists boric acid and distilled water for a lotion claim. It references an enlarged pers issue and aLatin formula promising correction with simple ingredients. The text is garbled but reads as a home remedy advertisement.
An anxious reader recalls a recipe mainly using cochineal and carbonate of soda, asking for the rest. Also notes a hair lotion for oily damp hair listing ingredients such as bicarbonate of soda borate, eau de cologne, alcohol, tincture of cochineal, and water with instructions to mix until dissolved.
The text guides gentle rubbing of the bust with a pomade containing Iodide of um and vaceline. It emphasizes avoiding rough handling to prevent serious trouble and advises twice daily rubbing over fatty areas for cautionary cosmetic care.
Fragmentary notes describe a paste using iodide of vaseline and tincture of Yensoin to reduce searing or scorching. The writer claims a formula of 0 for reduction and persistence until results appear, with unclear references and interrupted phrases.
Freddie balks at a difficult violin lesson and laments a screeching top note. His mother pretends to enforce a promise by making him practice one hour a day, then Freddie agrees to try again and claims the instrument will behave.
The excerpt lists humorous definitions and wordplay about teeth lemons Lapland pastry cooks and other contrasts. It links jokes on arms Adam running and a throttling comparison of a hungry man and a glutton. The tone mirrors a light historical humor page with compact quips.
A market woman mispriced apples at five for 2 cents. She sold three three-for-a-cent apples and two two-for-a-cent apples, leaving forty two-for-a-cent apples unsold. Those forty cost % cents, but at the five-for-2-cents rate they would fetch 16 cents, resulting in a 4-cent loss.
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