NEW USE FOR OLD PAPERS.
A wad ot newspapers, five or six, damped and rolled tightly together, and bound at each end with a twist of wire, will burn like logs. Chalk, placed at the back of the fire, in quantities about equal to the coal, detracts nothing from the warmth or cheerfulness, does not burn away, and saves 25 per cent, of coal. But much better and simpler than either of these devices is an ordinary builder’s brick, broken into three pieces and dropped among the coal when the fire is laid. The brick heats through, and gives out sustained heat, besides taking on the appearance of ordinary coal. Newspapers rolled up tig fitly into a ball will light any ordinary coal without sticks.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1059, 20 June 1912, Page 4
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125NEW USE FOR OLD PAPERS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1059, 20 June 1912, Page 4
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