Maybe you can clean oilstones with saurkraut juice?

On 02/23/2011 03:57 PM, John Pesut wrote:
> When my dad or any of his brothers claimed sickness (always a school 
> day) he let them
> stay home but made them drink a glass of sauerkraut juice right from 
> the barrel in the
> basement. Not so much a cure I think but a way to make sure you were 
> really sick.
>
> Buzzz. No old tool content. Sorry.
>
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> From: "scott grandstaff" 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 1:11 PM
> To: "porch" 
> Subject: Re: [OldTools] RE: cleaning oilstones
>
>> OK, old patent medicines,... just get me started !!!!
>>
>>   The three most popular ingredients in nearly all of them, including
>> The Great - Dr Kilmers - Kidney Liver and Bladder Cure - Specific!!
>>
>> (one dollar a bottle, folks, just one dollar for the perfect 
>> preparation of secretly guarded ingredients guaranteed to cure ......)
>>
>>  Were alcohol, opium and laxative.
>>  Notably senna or calomel.
>>  About 4 hours in the outhouse worth.
>
>
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