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Thrifty Tips and Lifestyle Notes from Old Columns
A collage of home hacks and lifestyle notes covers damp salt prevention with paraffine, cleaning tiled floors, keeping boiled potatoes snow white with a cloth, bread softness from pre baking greasing, lamp chimney care, rust removal tips, pie crust techniques, and a piece on Mrs. George W. Nickel promoting a modiste shop in California. It closes with a note on Samoan Island women cutting hair and wearing beauty patches as part of local beauty practices.
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George W. Nickel
California
Samoan Islands