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Polly's Pointers from The Cedar Rapids Gazette
A 1981 reader tips column offers home advice on jewelry cleaning with baking soda, snow rescue tips using a car floor mat, adding cheese to bean soup to reduce gas, removing perspiration marks with fabric softener, using salt to absorb rug stains, lighting a bug out of an ear with a flashlight, and note about Polly's coupon program.
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J.B
Polly
Lavinia
The
Cedar Rapids Gazette