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Posts from This Journal “1930s” Tag

• “Здесь делаютъ БЕЗПЛАТНО прививки отъ холеры” (1937)

  Enticing Shanghai Russians to get vaccinated against cholera in 1937, this sign was placed on Pingliang Road Market, in Wayside, where the Eastern…

• Russians beat the grim record again (1933)

  Katharine Hadley, a Russian woman from Libava (some say, Kazan), came to China in 1917 and worked in cabarets in Harbin, Dairen and Hankow,…

• Rich Uncle in America? This happens! (1935)

  A Fortune for a Cook The local newspapers are full of the story of the Russian emigrant S. V. Mokin, who serves as a cook to Dr S. I. Tarnovsky…