History in the making, gathering Dec 16, 2008
The Heritage Society has an original towel sterilizer from one of the shaving parlors/barber shops. McCarty explained that for two bits, or 25 cents, patrons could get a shave and a haircut. (Keyser Mineral Daily News Tribune, WV)
BETTER LIFE: Sexual health news Dec 12, 2008
Sexual health - Better Life - USATODAY.com. Review finds abortion doesn't cause mental health problems. (USA Today -- Tech)
More of this story» Oct 14, 2008
Part of her mini-museum is devoted to memorabilia from her profession, from straight razors to shaving brushes. "Let me tell you," Meyers says, "through the years there have been beauty shops all over Dowagiac - Lester Avenue, King Avenue, Hamilton Street, Wilbur Hill Road, Burmax Park. I never realized there were so many different places that they have been.". (Dowagiac News, MI)
Hot-button political issues Sep 5, 2008
"The first presidential elections produced no campaign materials. It was beneath the Founding Fathers to actually have to go out and stump and make speeches about themselves. The only things that might have survived are cufflinks, buttons or likenesses on shaving mugs commemorating inauguration. But as the 1800s move forward and you get past those Founding Fathers, you find more campaigning, more rhetoric.". Arseneau said the first campaign to generate collectibles was Andrew Jackson's in the... (Dowagiac News, MI)
Shrink the bottle, save the planet Aug 20, 2008
The key, he said, was to maintain the premium product's tall stature, which entailed shaving down the sides and giving the bottle a narrower look. The result is a more elegant bottle, easier to grasp because of the reduced diameter and easier to cram into the fridge next to the ketchup should one want to save an opened bottle for a few days. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
New York Mean Streets Deal Death to Curiosity Shops Aug 9, 2008
In the meantime, though, if I want to get rid of that collection of shaving mugs, I'm probably better off putting it online. ( is a Bloomberg News columnist. (Bloomberg -- Columnists)
Fair results - Open class antiques (A-19) Jul 13, 2008
Updated Jul 10, 2008 - 12:56:54 CDT. Web Search powered by YAHOO. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Win 'Sweeney Todd' Collectibles May 30, 2008
One grand-prize winner will be selected at random to receive a "Sweeney Todd" messenger bag, a shaving kit and prop replica razor with pouch. One first-prize winner will be selected at random to receive a messenger bag and window wall hanging, or a shaving kit and votive candleholder ... Three runners up will be selected at random to receive a shaving kit or baseball cap and beanie cap. (KCRA 3, CA)
Braves: Two chances to win road game today May 13, 2008
Overlord Horner has been scratched do to an abrasion he rec d while shaving :) (low blow, sorry, Horner was quite a player) ... actually i think horner went on the dl from a shaving accident. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Chester County craftsman makes one-of-a-kind chests Feb 24, 2008
When the routing is done, the woodworker becomes a carver and artist, he says, carefully shaving, beveling, refining ... My shavings are minute. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Aussie Picasso, Chagall bring home the bacon Feb 8, 2008
Kngwarreye's output varies widely from finely dotted works when she first turned from batik painting to acrylics in the early 1990s - she was already in her 80s - to the many cruder works produced when her strength deteriorated and she daubed with a shaving brush rather than a paintbrush. She died in September 1996. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Simpson has a knack for finding trouble Sep 22, 2007
He claimed the fabric contained a small blood stain, left when Simpson cut himself shaving the morning of the acquittal, and that it could be used in a DNA test to place Simpson at the murder scene. But the language Beardsley used made Cook suspicious. (Arizona Republic)
Anger over plan to halve size of wildlife crime unit May 24, 2007
Yard plan to halve size of wildlife crime unit angers campaigners. Conservation groups say taxpayers should foot bill Mayor to raise issue with Met commissioner. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Yard plan to halve size of wildlife crime unit angers campaigners May 24, 2007
Conservation groups say taxpayers should foot bill Mayor to raise issue with Met commissioner. Hugh MuirThursday May 24, 2007. (Guardian Unlimited)
Soldier's last request _ for bedding _ inspires mom's charity May 18, 2007
In a DVD sent to the family, Adam Conboy's corps members describe using baby wipes from the packages when they had no running water for bathing and receiving shaving cream just as superiors were demanding they dry shave beards thick from days of growth. "There was mad fighting over those pillows," one Marine said, "fighting for them, fighting with them, everything.". (NEPA News, PA)
OPEN SEASON: Lakeville's Turner wins Yerka award Feb 18, 2007
He took first place for humor with a story on running guns to the deer to make hunting fair, and he took second place in the column category with a story about shaving off most of his 23-year old beard. He also won a third place in the opinion category for his viewpoint piece on Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident and third place in the article category for his feature on bear hunting with bow and arrow in Canada. (The Standard-Times, MA)
Orlando: Please Do Not Feed The Homeless Feb 4, 2007
BATHING AND/OR SHAVING IN RESTROOM IS PROHIBITED. per city code 18A.09 (p). (CBS News)
