Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

How to silver a mirror, brew ginger beer, kill moths, make fireworks, tan a hide, bronze iron, cure a ham and clean a straw hat: William B. Dick's numbered encyclopedia answered the questions a nineteenth-century household actually had.

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Druggists' Show Colors

These are bright and perfectly transparent liquid colors, employed by druggists in ornamental bottles for purposes of display, forming an attractive and distinctive ornament of a drug store window. It has for a long time been

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