Simple Open Shelves Update for Dressers and Washstands
Readers are shown how to convert plain furniture into modern pieces by adding end shelves a plywood top plain baseboard and matching paint. The guide suggests replacing hardware filling screw holes with plastic wood and sanding before painting while noting a patriotic push to reuse household odds and ends through homemaking booklets.
Quiz QandA from a late 19th century reader page
The answers cover common knowledge trivia: sterling silver is 92.5 percent silver with 7.5 percent copper. Edison is credited with the genius quote. trees mostly die from wind or lightning. Rome as seven hills. George I as a non English speaking king. eminent domain as government right to take private property for public use. Washington wore powdered hair tied in a queue. Iceland has no railroads. Virginia as the state for Pneumonia, Hell’s Gate, Purgatory, Paradise journey.
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