Today in History: Persil – A Small Revolution in the Laundry World Around 1900, housewives would not dare dream of laundry magic. Washing clothes was not only hard work. The process of soaking, cooking, rubbing the laundry on the wooden washboard, rinsing, sun-bleaching and drying could take days! Enter Fritz Henkel from Germany and his […] …
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Cartoons and posters cross each other all the time but where the British brigade of Bert Thomas, Fougasse and Harry Stevens focus on the amusing side of British life : stoppping for a fag, moving along the platform, the world of bowler hats and umbrellas, Boris Efimov was focussing on sterner stuff Apparently a …
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