814-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 3, 2000
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QUESTION - Roger and Catherine Mills, Willow
Street, would like information on old peanut butter
glasses with the flower name on them. Are any ca
talogs featuring the glasses available?
QUESTION - A Lititz reader is looking for a 1990
Rose Art puzzle number 72348 55555 by Kodak.
The picture is of 15 babies in sleepers all lined up
in a row. The reader would like to frame the puzzle
but has two pieces missing.
QUESTION - V. Miller, HC 62, Box 660, Hones
dale, PA 18431 writes that they have discovered an
old well on their farm. The well has been filled with
stones, but the family would like to restore the well
and have a stream running from it. Anyone have in
formation on how to do this?
QUESTION Michael Hopkins Jr. would like to
know where he could purchase styrofoam egg car
tons in jumbo and super jumbo sizes. He prefers a
Pennsylvania source.
QUESTION Mary Hoover, 140 Gephart Rd.,
Shippensburg, PA 17257-9710 would like to know
where to get homemade hairnets.
QUESTION Charlotte Lippincott, Pilesgrove,
N.J., would like to know how to start Royal Pau
lowina trees with purple flowers. She picked up
some seed pods last winter. Inside are two large
seeds and a lot of little seeds like fuzzies in each
pod. She would like to start some trees. What
should she do?
QUESTION A. H. wants success with growing
melons, cantaloupes, zucchini and other vine
crops. He writes that, in the past, healthy-looking
plants with fruit on suddenly (almost overnight) wilt
from the center out and die off. What can be done
to prevent this from happening?
QUESTION Esther Zook, New Holland, wants
to know where to buy freezer popsickle molds.
QUESTION A Mercersburg reader can no
longer find butternut flavoring sold by Blair of Lyn
chburg, VA. The product was sold by the bottle as a
fundraiser for groups and organizations. The
reader has tried other brands of the butternut fla
voring but didn’t get the same flavorful results.
Anyone know if the Blair brand is still available and
where?
QUESTION Dale Burkhart is looking for a lard
can lid with the printing: Henry Burkhart Packing
Co. Pure Lard 50 lb. Dayton, Ohio. Anyone have one
they’d like to sell?
QUESTION A reader has lots of old books in
cluding a set of Dicken’s books from the 1800 s.
She wants to know if they have any value and
where to sell them. She does not have a computer
so do not send e-mail addresses.
QUESTION A Schuylkill County reader wants
lo know if anyone knows the value of an antique
dress form from the early 1900 s. It is a press-and
shape to the form you want to fit. Any idea of a fair
price?
QUESTION - Ezra Gottschalk, 849 Martin Ave.,
Ephrata, PA 17522, is looking for someone who
makes fish that hang on nylon cord from the ceil
ing. The fish are very attractive and move con
stantly in the air. Ezra would like to purchase five
fish.
QUESTION Susan Lingeris wants information
on hatching and raising all types of poultry. She
and her husband also want a used brooder for sale
that is in good shape. They also would like to pur
chase some fertile eggs in order to incubate eggs
on a small scale. Write to the Lingeris at 2 Fats
Hollow Rd., Galeton, PA 16922.
QUESTION Winona Homko, Oxford, N.J.,
wants to purchase, by the case, a product called
S&W Vintage Lites Oil Free Salad Dressing, distrib
uted in San Ramon, Calif. She wants the fat-free
dressing in the flavors of raspberry blush and white
wine. Although it is being sold in some parts of the
country by such stores as Shop ’N Bag and Thrift
way-Clemens, Winona needs additional purchas
ing information.
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QUESTION - Mrs. Glenn Miller, HC62, Box
660, Honesdale, PA 18431, wants the parts for a
Singer sewing machine model 237 Fashion Mate.
She needs the tension knob mechanism located on
the front of the machine.
QUESTION Gideon Stoltzfus requests a used
set of “Uncle Arthur’s Bedtime Stories” and “My
Bible Friends.” Set should be in good condition and
reasonably priced. Write t> Stoltzfus at 31848 Mill
Lane, Gordonville, PA 17529.
QUESTION I. Wenger wants to purchase the
following three books, but he sent no address. The
books are “More All -Of-A-Kind Family” and “All-
Of-A-Kind Family Uptown” by Sydney Taylor; and
“The Four-Story Mistake” by Elizabeth Enright.
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