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TreasonousBastard's JournalLocal moonshiner another one giving away hand sanitizer...
I know this place very well. They make the smoothest bourbon you've ever had. Pricey, though.
https://riverheadlocal.com/2020/03/20/riverhead-distillery-offering-free-hand-sanitizer-to-the-community/
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Riverhead distillery offering free hand-sanitizer to the community
By Denise Civiletti - Mar 20, 2020, 6:08 pm
Patty and Joe Cunha, owners of Twin Stills Distillery in Riverhead, with the hand-sanitizer they're making to give away to the community. Photo: Denise Civiletti
Twin Stills Moonshine in Riverhead, distillers of O’Oldtymer Moonshine, is adding a new product to their inventory: hand sanitizer.
Owners Joe and Patty Cunha are making the much sought-after hand sanitizer to give away to the public, starting tomorrow.
“We got an email from the federal government describing guidelines for making a hand sanitizer,” Joe Cunha said.
Licensed distilleries are now permitted by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau to make hand sanitizer, with the hope that the distilleries can help meet some of the demand for the product, which has been sold out in stores across the country because of the coronavirus pandemic
I am supposed to use distilled water in my cpap device, although...
I have no idea if other waters would work.
Anyway, I tried five stores this AM to get a gallon of the stuff, and finally found one last lonely gallon at the sixth store.
Plenty of spring water, purified water, and other stuff on the shelves, but no distilled? Why the run on distilled?
And now for something completely different-- wife selling as alternative to divorce...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_selling_(English_custom)Although the custom had no basis in law and frequently resulted in prosecution, particularly from the mid-19th century onwards, the attitude of the authorities was equivocal. At least one early 19th-century magistrate is on record as stating that he did not believe he had the right to prevent wife sales, and there were cases of local Poor Law Commissioners forcing husbands to sell their wives, rather than having to maintain the family in workhouses.
Wife selling persisted in England in some form until the early 20th century; according to the jurist and historian James Bryce, writing in 1901, wife sales were still occasionally taking place during his time. In one of the last reported instances of a wife sale in England, a woman giving evidence in a Leeds police court in 1913 claimed that she had been sold to one of her husband's workmates for £1.
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And, of course as all good British customs come to the colonies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_selling#United_States
In 1781, in South Carolina, a "Bill of Sale"[3] of a "Wife and Property"[3] for "Two Dollars and half Dozen Bowls of Grogg",[3] the buyer "to have my said Wife for ever and a Day",[3] is, according to Richard B. Morris, "unique of its kind".[4] According to Morris, "although the administration of the law was in a somewhat unsettled state during this ["British"] military occupation [of Charleston], neither at common law nor under the marriage laws then in force in South Carolina would the sale of a wife have been valid".[5][a] The document likely was a way, wrote Morris, for "dissolving the marriage bond"[6] since the state forbade divorce[7] "and the marriage laws of the Church of England were widely disregarded among the poorer whites and in the back country",[8] but it could also have been intended to reduce the husband's liability for debts for support of the wife and her children and for her pre-wedding debts,[9] while it was unlikely to have been for the sale of a Black slave or an indentured servant,[10] though being for the sale of an Indian woman or a mestizo, while unlikely, was not impossible.[1
Now, according to several sources, some wives had no problem being sold to a better mate, and often instigated their sales to their lovers.
Still, to our modern sensitivities, the entire idea seems brutish.
About toilet paper...
Apparently, it was invented in the 6th century by the Chinese. It never became popular in the West until the 1800s, when some patents were issued.
So, what did we do without TP?
Many things are a bit icky to talk about, but we have had cotton cloth for a long time. Terrycloth.
When I have bouts of diarrhea from certain meds, I have this huge stack of washcloths sitting there. The come in handy for kitchen and other spills, too, and I hardly use paper towels at all any more. Even good as potholders and other things...
I stock up when I see a display of a pack of a dozen washcloths or hand towels for a couple of bucks. They get dirty, and I throw them in the wash, with plenty of bleach.
Another problem solved.
A woman of my acquaintance just had her daughter accepted to a prestigious private...
high school. But it's the one she applied to that didn't accept her that is the story.
They are both shutting down, but her school offered students who had no safe place to go a safe dorm until the crisis is over, or at least better understood.
The other school demanded that everyone leave, including a large number of Chinese students who they insisted had to go back to China. No tuition refund, or other assistance-- just get out. Sounds inhuman to send them back into the maelstrom.
These Chinese students, btw, pay full freight, allowing girls like my friend's daughter to get generous scholarships.
Yesterday I was listening to Mazie Hirono say that Donald Trump should just...
shut up and get out of the way so people who know what they are doing can deal with the crisis.
Simple, eh?
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