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Show FT MEMBER"! SY TIIS 0LDTIMZRS k r .. From W C. Norton, Temperance, Mich.: I remember the woodburn-ing woodburn-ing locomotive. 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 73 yean ago. From Mrs. E. C. Slllin. t'tlca, 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. Oodfred Eisele, Chelsea, Chel-sea, Mich.: I remember when 1 was about 8, my mother rented a huckleberry marsh. AH they paid i then was three cents a quart. When I was 17 I worked in a hotel had to clean and fill about 30 lamps each day. , From Mrs. Nine Brewer, Wlnns-boro, Wlnns-boro, Texas; I remember when we used to buy a bottle of medicine medi-cine and there would be a pork-screw pork-screw inside the box to remove the stopper from the bottle. I rem em ber when spools had 100 yards of thread for five cents (now only 60 yards). i ' From Olga K. Robinson, Menlo Park, Callf.r 1 remember back In New York state when the win ter's water supply was hauled by man power through a hole in the ice on the falmoti 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 pla'nes. Chicago.) - |