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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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Hair Gloss

Mix 1 pint spirit of jasmin, and 5 drops aniline, with 4 pounds pure glycerine.

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