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The Pocumtuc housewife : a guide to domestic cookery as it is practiced in the Connecticut Valley : to which are added plain directions for soap making, brewing, candle dipping, dyeing, clear starching, caring for the sick and all duties of a careful housewife. Especially adapted to the use of young wives who come from outside places and are not conversant with the ways of the valley, and of female orphans who have not had a mother's training

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Publication date: [1925]
Call number: 638225
Dimensions: 19 cm
Associated people: Cranston, Anne M.,; Callahan, Elanne C.,
Associated organization: First Church of Deerfield (Deerfield, Mass.).
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The practical scourer and garment dyer : comprising dry or chemical cleansing, the art of removing stains, fine washing, bleaching and dyeing of straw hats, gloves and feathers of all kinds, dyeing of worn clothes of all fabrics, including mixed goods, by one dip, and the manufacture of soaps and fluids for cleansing purposes
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The orphan's best legacy: or, God's parental care of bereaved children: : a discourse occasion'd by the death of the Honourable Samuel Sewall Esq; who departed this life, Jan. 1. 1729,30. Aetatis 78. By his son, Joseph Sewall, Pastor of the South Church in Boston. [Nine lines of Scripture texts]
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The way to save wealth; : shewing how a man may live plentifully for two-pence a day. Likewise how to make a hundred noble dishes of meat, without either flesh, fish, or fowl. To make bread of roots, herbs, and leafs of trees. To brew good cheap liquor, without malt or hops. To make shoes last long. To make coals last long. To save soap in washing. To save cloth in cutting out a shirt. To make coffee of horse-beans To feed cattel well, without hay, grass, or corn. To save candles. To know any one's mind by signs; if there be twenty in company, they cannot apprehend it. To order bees aright. To settle your estate with Christian prudence. To know Scripture-weights and measures. Of dreams. To cure wounds by sympathy. The way to live long. To make spring-potage. To cure all sorts of cattle for 12 d. charge. To improve land, order and cure all deseases in singing birds. To kill vermin. To brew pale ales. To make wines, and all sorts of liquor, and an easy way to fine, and order them. With d
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The orphan's best legacy: or, God's parental care of bereaved children: : a discourse occasion'd by the death of the Honourable Samuel Sewall Esq; who departed this life, Jan. 1. 1729,30. Aetatis 78. By his son, Joseph Sewall, Pastor of the South Church in Boston. [Nine lines of Scripture texts]