Frugal Household Tips From Old Texts
Practical advice covers organizing papers and receipts for dispute proof, storing articles separately, and using bacon drippings to season vegetables. It also notes safe paraffin heating, soothing a new puppy with an alarm clock, cleaning vases with eggshells, and current fabric trends favoring large bold abstract patterns over florals.
Calliope Moves From River Boats to Circus
The calliope, a steam whistle instrument, originated in Massachusetts in 1855 as river boat entertainment. Its popularity surged for about two decades before boats retired them, and it later found a home in circuses fairs and carnivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calliope
Massachusetts
Collier’s
Also Mentioned on This Page
Junior
Moother
Martha Ellen Truman
Grandview
Harry
United States
Washington
Lincoln
Percy C. Powell
Library of Congress
Abraham Lincoln
Robert Todd Lincoln
Robert
Luther H. Evans
Librarian of
Congress
Sun Valley
Idaho
Wonderland Resort
Senate
Capitol Hill
Capitol Steps
Southampton
New York
Hughes
Howard Hughes
Hello
Betty Grable
Harry James
Jessica James
Vicki
Defense
James V. Forrestal
National Security
Republic
Harold Hirshberg
New York Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Manhattan Island
Steelways Magazine
Manhattan
AIR National Guard
Army Air Forces
Lockheed
ANG
van Nuys
Calif
Hap Arnold
Henry H. Arnold
U. S. Army Air Forces
Sonoma
Warren Betz
Alcide de Gasperi
Italy
U. S. State Department
Will Clayton
Clayton
Rome
Europe
de Gasperi
Earl Old Person
Montana
Moisson
France
Vatican
Frank Pinza
Metropolitan Opera
Ezio Pinza
Roman Singers of Sacred Music
Vatican Choir
Rene Price
Ee LG
PIO Critte Refi 5 Products CO
Eee
Battie Creek
Omaha
McKesson Laboratories