Household Tips From An Earlier Era
A long list of practical household hints covers preserving silver with camphor, curing insomnia with warm milk, treating damp cellars with salt, mending ribbons, flavoring bread pudding with lemon peels, crafting cozy boot soles from felt hats, perfuming rooms with dry leaves, disinfecting toothbrushes, smoothing rusty cans with salt and beeswax, and improving pastry by seiving through a sieve. It also includes cleaning brasses, thickening mustard with salt, gradual heating china to prevent cracking, using hard boiled eggs for salads, preserving wet shoes by hanging them, keeping pastries crisp with milk, blooding knife handles with salt and lemon, freshening sour milk with carbonate of soda and boiling, drawing threads by soap and brush, whitening nails with lemon, removing marks with raw potato, polishing boots with lemon juice, scrubbing potatoes with soda, baking cakes with two tins, keeping cut flowers fresh with a carbonate rinse, treating feet for long walks with methylated spirit, and keeping celery crisp by wrapping in brown paper and storing in a cool place.
Household Hacks From A Past Era Offer Everyday Fixes
Reminders on cooking meats and spreads, cleaning tips for ceilings and frames, and practical household repairs. Advice covers stuffing bread pans, removing smoke marks with paste, stopping minor bleeds with cold water, and preserving jars with jelly, plus porch and wallpaper mends and simple soap recycling.
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Ted Enonese
Messrs. Fallowfield and Co. Timber & Hardware Merchants
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Cinb Hotel
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Absolute Cl. Allured
Macchinon
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Telephone
Edward Pope & Co. Commission
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Commercial Union Assuranes Co. Ltd
Fite, Marina and Aceizen O2hona Mutual Tile Assurance Co
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J.C. Hatten, Ltd
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Wainwright Ant Co
Padbury Stores, Ltd
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Victoria Road
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Eagle
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Geraldton Express
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Geo. Kaing
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A.J. Daria
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Mallews
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Yuna
Yules
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Wright
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Victoria Flour
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Steatherr
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Nortifame Too
Aves Butakerst
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Amway
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Thranghent
North-West
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Goldfields
Personnl
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Durlacher
Was
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Pest
Wil Fraine
Steen
Evetrsyavaiytaitetin
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J. A. Marshall
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Standard Fire & Marine
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Ama Commission
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General Storzefepes
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Wite
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Maine Perrage
Ded Nobel
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Freemasons
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Williamson
Muskett Bros. Proprietor Telephone 141
Sunesty
Australian Mutual Provident Society
George
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