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...unfortunate to live in the Houses and pay five dollars a week there, and you wanted to take a hot bath you have two choices. You could go to the Yard and sponge off a friend or you could go to your own bath tub in Kirkland. If you did the latter you would still have two choices, making hot water in a tin kettle or warming yourself up. If you did the latter there is only one sure-fire way, even if you make a wry face...
...Baker's letter in June 26 issue, the "socalled Tree Soldier'' does not get his tobacco, laundry, chewing gum and shows free. Mr. Baker should be around here sometime and see how the laundry is done "free," with every man draped over a wash tub and wash board...
...Milwaukee last week Dr. Donald Breckinridge Wells of Hartford, Conn., told how deformities like Doris Johnson's might be prevented. Let severely burned or scalded people be plumped into a tub of tannic acid solution,* he advised, and be given quantities of liquids to drink. The drink balances the water lost from the system on account of the burning, while the astringent tannic acid relieves pain, toughens the body surface and loosens burned tissue. While the victim is in the bath, several attendants busily remove loosened, burned tissue and wash unharmed skin with soap and water. This procedure...
...Denver, Colo., Mrs. Mary Benson, middle-aged and stout, squatted in the tub for her bath, got wedged under the faucets, grew weak, could not pull herself out. Four days later Mrs. F. A. Jones, a neighbor, discovered her plight and called the police, but in her excitement gave the wrong address. When she telephoned again the operator said it was a funny story but not to bother her any more. After still a third call, police came to fetch Neighbor Jones for questioning as a suspicious character, but she induced them to visit the entubbed Mrs. Benson. There they...
...after knowing it firsthand. But the most modern and thorough| going sinners are organized. From gangland has yet to come a reformed Capone to make converts as efficiently as he used to machine-gun rival racketeers. Nearest thing to an ex-gangster evangelist is the well-fed, twinkling tub-thumper who was billed last week at a church in a down-at-heel section of Brooklyn as Lou Hill. "Former Hijacker, Gambler, Confidence Man," a Chicago hoodlum turned holy. High point of imaginative Lou Hill's career was strong-arming on a Chicago newspaper route with the late Dion...