This Week In History – Some Hair Raising Advice

march 11 2014 blog 5While the earlier newspapers contained “telegraphic news” from around the world, and other filler items, it wasn’t until the early 1920’s that regular features started to appear. The first ones I noticed were a fashion column, and one on Household management. There were other regular items such as Sunday School Lessons, serial novels, a medical column and crossword puzzles. A popular topic, then, as today, was beauty advice. The earliest items I found were ads, but by the 1930’s there were regular columns by people such as Helelna Rubenstein. This week I thought it would be fun to look at some of the items that appeared in the newspapers in the 20’s and 30’s, a time when artificial fingernails were featured in “odd But True”, and it was suggested that a “simple speedy process” for waving the hair was sticking your head over a pan of boiling water for 5 or 10 minutes. I chose mainly articles on hair care for this time.

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Snippets from the Grande Prairie Herald.
Snippets from the Grande Prairie Herald.

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