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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1916
Page
11
A London theatre piece features Peggy Burton in Mr Manhattan where she, famed as the blue eyed heroine, questions beauty norms. The excerpt recalls a preference for uglier, more fascinating suitors and mentions a fiancé in the show and real life audiences drawn to her.
Peggy Burton writes on her fixation with ugly men as more fascinating than handsome ones, outlining preferences for age, nationality, and personality. She imagines a dark, intellectual fiancé, admires American cinema hopes, and notes a desire for a pink pearl string valued around $30.
Article explains the evolution of match production from hand dipped to machine driven. It details how pine splints are cut, grooved, dried, dipped in paraffin, and headed with phosphorus and other chemicals, then transported by belts to packing. It notes global consumption about three million matches per minute and fifteen hundred billion per year.
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