RUSSIAN BOOTS
MADE FROM HUMAN HAIR
LONDON, Dec. 28-
‘ Making ends meet” is literally the keynote of a Soviet scheme to pro-
vide every dault each year with » pair of felt hoots made from his own hair, says the Moscow correspondent of the "News-Chronicle”.
The Union Rubbish Trust lias been instructed to accumulate by January 13,000 tons of sweepings from harbors’ shops in Moscow, . Leningrad, Kazan, Odessa and Kharkov to enable the experts of the Felt Boot Trust at Novgorod to make foot coverings from them. Tt- is stated that 450 barbers’ shops in Moscow will supply 1500 tons a year, yielding 1,500,000 pairs of hoots. The- trust promises positions in rest houses to those collecting the maximum quantity.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11826, 6 January 1933, Page 2
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