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...Baking powder" was, of course, a slip. The formula should have specified baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) which, many physicians believe, helps to cure a cold by "alkalizing" the system...
Picture people all over the world trying to cure their colds with baking powder...
...your article "New Deal Cold Cure," Jan. 22 issue, p. 23, you say under Federal Cold Treatment No. 1, item e1 "saturated solution of baking powder;" you mean baking soda...
...depths of Welfare Island until he went to the mess hall at noon. In fluttered a huge chorus of perverts, their lips and cheeks blushing with rouge, their eyes darkened with mascara, their hair flowing long. In their cells were found heaps of feminine underclothes, nightgowns, perfume, lipsticks, suntan powder. They were confined to the laundry during work hours, but at other times were not segregated. Unless close watch was kept on these tainted characters, other prisoners would fight as desperately for their favor as they would for a woman...
Snow conditions for week-end skiing in New Hampshire and Vermont are generally favorable. Woodstock, Vermont, and Mt. Monadnock, Warren, New Hampshire, are especially good, with twenty to thirty inches of snow and a powder surface. Claremont, East Jaffery, Hanover, Littleton, North Conway, Intervale, and Peterbore, in New Hampshire, and Greenfield, Massachusetts, also offer good skiing with an average of twelve inches of snow and powder surface, while Canaan, Lincoln, Newport, and Wonalancet. New Hampshire, are only fair. The temperature will probably drop during Friday and Saturday...