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~ Accidents, Emergencies, and Illnesses, Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, 1902
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~ ~ Facts for the People, Things Worth Knowing: A Book of Receipts, in which Every Thing is of Practical Use to Every Body, 1850
“A good wife is the most constant and faithful companion you can possibly have by your side, while performing the journey of life - a dog isn’t a touch to her.”
The Home and Farm Manual; A New and Complete Pictorial Cyclopedia of Farm, Garden, Household, Architectural, Legal, Medical and Social Information, By Hon. Jonathan Periam, 1884
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~ People’s Home Journal, May 1911
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“…the drunkard is reclaimed even against his will and without his knowledge”
“It’s probably bad etiquette to reblog yourself, but this is sadly appropriate for my life lately and I needed to read it again…”~ The I Hate to Housekeep Book, Peg Bracken 1962
~ The Lady’s Annual Register and Housewife’s Memorandum Book for 1838, by Caroline Gilman
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~ Principles of Politeness, and of Knowing the World. By the late Lord Chesterfield. Methodified and digested under distinct Heads, With Additions, By the Rev. Dr. John Trusler: Containing Every Instruction necessary to complete the GENTLEMAN and MAN OF FASHION; to teach him a Knowledge of Life, and make him well received in all Companies, 1786
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~ Mackenzie’s Ten Thousand Receipts, In All The Useful And Domestic Arts; Constituting A Complete And Practical Library, 1867
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