Australian Sapphires and their mining methods
Sapphires occur across Australian states with rich deposits near Anakie Queensland. The area spans about fifty square miles around Sapphire Town, mainly in granite regions. sapphires stay near surface if deposits wash away, reappearing nearby. A quartzite rock called billy indicates sapphire nearby, though some locales lack it, suggesting variable sources within the field.
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Anakie
Queensland
B. Dunstan
Sapphire Town
Scientific American
New Tool Handle Found With Numerous Tool Sets
Carpenters and mechanics discovered tool sets containing many individual tools paired with a single handle. The find suggests a common or modular kit setup. Authorities have not released details on ownership or origin.
Wire Holder For Kitchen Utensils Patented In New Jersey
A New Jersey inventor has patented a compact wire holder to keep kitchen odds and ends neatly arranged. The device mounts in a convenient spot and provides spaces for a broom cups brushes and other small utensils to promote tidiness and a clear work area.
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Washington Star
Economy in Gas and Kitchen Utensils
A Harper’s Bazaar remark criticizes women who use multiple saucepans on gas or gasoline stoves to save pennies, noting they waste more fuel monthly than the cost of buying double or triple cooking utensils for use over a single burner.
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Harper's Bazar
Cooling Cakes or Pies For Crisp Crusts
A Ladies' World tip explains cooling pies on a perforated stand to avoid steaming the crust and preserving freshness. It suggests air circulating under the crust and using improvised supports like a strainer, teacup, or colander. For cakes, cooling on a damp cloth loosens the bake quickly, and keeping a cake in the pan is possible by placing it on a cup.
How to Launder Silk Stockings and Delicate Fabrics
The guide from The Commoner outlines silk stockings soak in lightly borax water, wash with pure white soap, rinse, and dry. Colored stockings use salt water to prevent running, lace is dried flat then pressed in a book, and yellowed clothes are whitened with a paraffin lime water turpentine emulsion. Delicate colors require bran water or thin starch, ribbons receive careful washing with a soft brush in mild soap suds, and if gas oil nears, rinse and iron carefully.
Cookies and Candies From a Historic Recipe Fragment
A fragment describes making Cookies with one cup butter two cups sugar three eggs two spices plus boiling water stirred with raisins and flour, then baked. Tart method uses large pans, baked paste cooled filled with jam, decorative top strips. Caramel Junket method details sugar syrup milk cream and a dissolved junket tablet to form a dessert with whipped vanilla cream.
Women Who Charm With Bright Health Then Beauty
An ad extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for nervousness sleeplessness backache bearing down pains and irregularities in women. It cites testimonials from Miss Elizabeth Kerr and Miss Hulda Kughler of New York praising improvement after use and invites women to seek free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia B. Pinkham
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydie
E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Inkham
Bynn
Mass
Kam
G& Cents
KR. Paxton CO
Ancient Egyptian Gold Mines Reopened by English Capital
English capital funds the reopening of ancient Egypt gold mines raising questions about exploitation and heritage. Analysts note potential yields for investors and regional economic impact as operations resume near historic sites.
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Ancient
Egypt
N. Y
Awful eczema case ends with eye spared
A mother recalls her one year and a half old daughter suffering severe eczema. After three doctors and worsening sores a dermatology expert suggested eye specialist care. Within a week sores faded and eye eyesight was saved only if Cuticura had been used earlier, per Mrs. Frank Abbott in Fulton Oswego County New York. Roller skates were invented by Plympton in 1863.
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Dietee Mo
Frank Abbott
Fulton, Oswego Co
N. Y
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Geo. W. Goethals
Panama Canal
Australian Sapphires
John Plummer
New Jersey
Household Affairs
Arecipes
Elizabeth Kerg
8Th Avenue
New York City
Hulda Kughler
West 15Th
Salt
Lydia
Ito
Elizabeth Wynn
J. Hamilton Ayers, A. M
M. D
Book Publishing House
Leonard Street
Cutiura
Plympton
Darold Somers
Watwece Thompson's Eye Water
C. Witten
Elm St
Newark
Andy Cathartic
Sterling Remedy Co
Chicago
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