Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1911 — Carpets on Floor. [ARTICLE]

Carpets on Floor.

To clean carpet on floor, take four ounces alcohol, one 10-cent cake soap, two ounces borax, shave soap and dissolve in two quarts water boiling hot Add borax when dissolved, add one gallon of water, boll fifteen minutes, take from fire, and add as much water as necessary. Take good stiff brush and go over one width of the carpet at a time, dipping brush In fluid often, then go over all again with clean water. Your carpet will look like now.