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232 Liquid Stove Polish
Mix 2 parts Copperaas, 1 part Powdered
Bone Black, and 1 part Black Lead
with Enough water to make it like thick
cream. It takes 2 applications.
July 26 1890
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Black Walnut Stain
A decoction of green Walnut husks
boiled in Lye.
Dragons Blood and Lamp black
mixed in Wood Alcohol, Well rubbed in
1 gallon strong Black Vinegar, 1 pound
dry burnt Umber, 1/2 #b [pound] fine Rose pink
1/2 #b [pound] dry burnt Vandyke brown. After
mixing and standing for a day it is
ready for use. July 26, 1890
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Universal Paste
2 ounces clear gum Arabic, 1 1/2 ounces
fine starch, 1/2 ounce white Sugar.
Dissolve the gum Arabic in as much
water as a woman uses to make starch.
Mix the starch and sugar with the
mucilage. Then cook the mixture
in a vessel suspended in boiling
water, until the starch becomes clear.
The cement should be as thick
as tar and kept so. Camphor
or oil of cloves keeps from spoiling.
October 11 1890
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First Class Paste 233
Take a quart of Water and dissolve
in it, a teaspoonful of pure powdered
alum. Stir into this Enough of flour
to make a thick cream. Break up
Every little lump of Flour until the
mixture is Smooth. Stir in next a tea-
spoonful of powdered rosin. Now
pour in a cupfull of boiling water.
Stir it all well. For nice smell, put in
a little oil of cloves. When the
mixture has cooled [struckthrough] thickened from
cooking by the boiling water, pour it
into an Earthen vessel, not a tin one.
Cover it up and keep in a cool place.
When you want to use it, take what you
need and soften with warm water. Will
Keep a long while and is very strong. Nov 1 1890
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Cement for Glass & [and] Crockery
One third of a pint of milk is curdled,
by adding vinegar. The whey is taken and
the white of an egg is stirred into it. Finely
divided quicklime is added, and the mass
is thoroughly mixed with a Knife or spatula
and applied to the surface. After drying, it
is heated over a stove, or a rather dry oven. Jany [January] 24 1891
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Soft Solder
2 parts Tin, 1 part Lead, 1 part Bismuth.
Can be used with a lighted Candle. Augt [August] 3 1889
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Bisulphide of Carbon
Is very dangerous. The vapour will take
fire at a long distance. It will take
fire even from an almost Extinguished
coal of fire. August 16 1890
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