Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1912 — Our Furnace Symposium. [ARTICLE]
Our Furnace Symposium.
Ranking the fire is a very simple process. It is easier to bank anything else we know of. We have been able to bank anything excepting a lire for several years. Place the ashes In the flour sifter and thus sprinkle them carefully over the coalß. Three teacupfuls for a small furnace, the kind that goes out every five minutes, and five teacupfuls for one of the battleship variety. Close all of the drafts, or leave all of them open, as you choose, turn out the gas in the basement, lodk the kitchen door, take your dose of Family Tea, wind the dock, pnt out the cat and go to bed. If these directions are followed faithfully you will In the morning find one of two conditions: The fire will be going or it will be ouL —Boston Globe.
