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Show 1 REMEMBER"! BV THE OLDIIMZRS - - I, From W. C. Norton, Temperance, Mich.: I remember the woodburn-lng woodburn-lng locomotives that used to fuel up where we lived. I remember the cradle and wood rake. I remember my first chew of tobacco, although it was 75 years ago. From Mrs. K. C. Slllin, Utlca, Ohio: Mother would take wood ashes and put them in a barrel, pour water over them and get lye. Then she would take several large ears of corn and shell into a large pan and pour some of the lye and water over the corn. She would cook until you could rub the hulls off the corn with your hands. The product was called hominy. From Mrs. Godfred Eisele, Chelsea, Chel-sea, Mich.: I remember when 1 was about 8, my mother rented a huckleberry marsh. All they paid then was three cents a quart. When I was 17 I worked in a hotel had to clean and fill about 30 lamps tach day. From Mrs. Nina Brewer, Winns-boro, Winns-boro, Texas: I remember when we used to buy a bottle of medicine medi-cine and there would be a corkscrew cork-screw inside the box to remove the stopper from the bottle. I remember remem-ber when spools had 100 yards of thread for five cents (now only 60 yards). From Olga K. Robinson, Menlo Park, Calif.: I remember back in New York state when the winter's win-ter's water supply was hauled by man power through a hole in the ice on the f almon river. After the hole was cut it was enclosed with a box and cover to keep out dogs. (Mail your memories to THE OLD TIMER, N.W.N.S., 210 S. Des-plaines, Des-plaines, Chicago.) |