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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...
...Soda for Colds...
...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...
...Birth Control Review says that in the vicinity of New York alone 300 manufacturers are making contraceptives of one sort or another. Peddlers hawk material on subway platforms. A 1932 survey of western Florida showed that one form of contraceptive was being sold in 376 gasoline stations, garages, restaurants, soda fountains, barber shops, pool rooms, cigar stands, news stands, shoe shine parlors, grocery stores. Slot machines for dispensing exist in several states. Contraceptives are now advertised in such magazines as Outdoor Life, Eagle Magazine, Illustrated Mechanics and Locomotive Engineers' Journal...
Federal Cold Treatment No. 2: two aspirin tablets, a teaspoon of baking soda, a dash of aromatic spirits of ammonia and a few drops of spirits of camphor shaken with two ounces of hot water. Swallow the mixture...