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75The Liquid Pearl
Back in the Victorian era, face paint really WAS paint - or arsenic, or lead. Face enameling was expensive (and dangerous) - either at the chiropodist's (!) - or at home with some DIY Liquid Pearl.
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70Dr. Trask's Magnetic Ointment
Over on my history blog I've written about several Victorian cures which featured adjectives like magnetic or electric: there were chains, teething necklaces, oils, soaps, brushes and therapeutic belts and corsets - just to name a few (I know that...
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68A Refreshing Drink in Victorian Central Park
Not just any old cold drink dispenser. I'm sure you've seen (and used) drinking fountains in parks, in the summer. They're all pretty much the same: metal, with the little spout, like the ones in schools. Utilitarian, really. But in the 1870s in New...
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60The Hub of the Universe (Also of Shirts)
The Hub of the Universe This 1883 shirt advertisement is not a message to the future reader and writers of HubPages, but is referring to the "Hub" Shirt Emporium in Boston, Massachusetts. And the store was called that because just as New York is...
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70Merchant's Gargling Oil
A typical Victorian patent medicine tends to have a startling name, a ridiculously wide range of uses, a flurry of hyberbole (often in the form of fascinating letters from happily cured folks) and - if we're lucky - some wonderfully loopy, but...
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