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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To Keep Away Mosquitoes

it would be useless in its original state. The Dip a piece of sponge or flannel in camphor- following methods of preparing paper will be ated spirits, and make it fast to the top found useful, and in some cases indispensable, of the bedstead. A decoction of pennyroyal, for reference.

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