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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1888
Page
7
From Good Housekeeping and other pages, practical notes on poison first aid including ammonia water poisoning and various antidotal steps. Also decor and care tips on washing blankets, rag carpets, and wall art. Features Mother Instinct, domestic advice, and household experiments and cautions.
A miscellany of domestic tips covers washing wool, using borax in laundry, care for lace and cambric, starching crinolines, and softening hard water. It also offers jewelry and stamp preservation ideas, stove polish, and decanter cleaning tips, plus a note on sawdust shipping and underwharf vagrant gangs.
A fragment recounts improvised Civil War era lighting using lard globs and dried sycamore balls, and crude candles called Confederates or endless candles. It notes how lantern light shaped night scenes of enslaved communities’ dances and rituals, with shouts of battle lists and casualties in period news columns.
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