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hollydolly said:
I believe she used wax papers and yes rubber rings, and tight twisted lids.. but I can't be sure, I was very little :D
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@hollydolly the wax was before rubber rings. I still used the wax method when I first got married. It was the only method I knew from watching my grandmother.
After that I got my first Ball Blue Booklet which was the company that put out jars and lids it showed the latest preserving methods. That's when I switched to the open kettle method with tin lids rather than wax.
 

hollydolly said:
RR..my granny made a lot of jams and marmalades... never put any paraffin on them... , what reason is there for paraffin I wonder...
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Using paraffin as a sealant is a new one on me too but paraffin is used in pharmaceuticals as a laxative.
Liquid paraffin is primarily used as a paediatric laxative in medicine and is a popular treatment for constipation and encopresis because of its ease of titration.

To save you looking it up:
Encopresis is more often called faecal incontinence, or soiling.
Titration is the slow addition of one solution of a known concentration (called a titrant) to a known volume of another solution of unknown concentration until the reaction reaches neutralisation, which is often indicated by a colour change.
Hope you weren't enjoying breakfast.
 
A Paraffin test is also used to help expose traces of nitrate on the hand (s) from gun powder residue after firing a handgun. I learned that in Criminalistics class along with the 3 types of Fingerprints, Whorls, Loops and Arches.
 
Dancing_Queen said:
I wonder how students in the U.S. who haven't been trained in writing script can sign their names to anything. I understand that schools are beginning to teach it again, but that leaves out a large cohort. Does anyone know?
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Don't know about students, but for adults (and maybe supervised minors), from my law dictionary:

X-- A mark that may be used as signature by one who is unable to write his or her name. The mark may be placed wherever the signature could be placed and does not have to be attested unless so required by statute. A name may accompany a mark, and the mark will be sufficient even if the name is invalid due to an incorrect spelling or other error. 80 C.J.S. Signatures: sec. 4 (1953).

C.J.S. stands for Corpus Juris Secundum. It is a legal Encyclopedia like American Jurisprudence or ALR American Law Reports, collections of case law citations from around the U.S. on many legal topics.

I'd have to read the actual entry in C.J.S. to explain it better.
 
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Ruth n Jersey said:
@hollydolly the wax was before rubber rings. I still used the wax method when I first got married. It was the only method I knew from watching my grandmother.
After that I got my first Ball Blue Booklet which was the company that put out jars and lids it showed the latest preserving methods. That's when I switched to the open kettle method with tin lids rather than wax.
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ah yes she may have used the rubber rings,.. after the wax method. Can't remember tbh, I was very young, but I do remember both methods.. certainly the little wax papers, and the heavy twist tops too
 
StarSong said:
I had a single child and twenty six months later was surprised with a set of twins. Necessity being the mother of invention, I created ways to work with the chaos.
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You were busy, Star!

It's so true about being creative, inventive in fact, when one is saddled with three little ones like you were.

I took to assembly-line feeding, dressing, and changing when I had two little ones, with another older one just ahead of the younger two. It's amazing at the time one can save when tackling the basics through the day, and how efficient one get's at all the processes when you're doing things for more than one.
 
ohioboy said:
Don't know about students, but for adults (and maybe supervised minors), from my law dictionary:

X-- A mark that may be used as signature by one who is unable to write his or her name. The mark may be placed wherever the signature could be placed and does not have to be attested unless so required by statute. A name may accompany a mark, and the mark will be sufficient even if the name is invalid due to an incorrect spelling or other error. 80 C.J.S. Signatures: sec. 4 (1953).

C.J.S. stands for Corpus Juris Secundum. It is a legal Encyclopedia like American Jurisprudence or ALR American Law Reports, collections of case law citations from around the U.S. on many legal topics.

I'd have to read the actual entry in C.J.S. to explain it better.
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Thanks, Ohio. I know about the "X," but simply have a hard time contemplating an entire generation's signing that way. With all of the hoopla right now about signing ballots and checking signatures...
 
In the U.S. the film companies got together and made some decisions because it was felt that the lack of morality had gotten out of hand:

Quoted directly:

1. Nudity, even in silhouette, was banned.

2. Showing or talking about divorce or adultery in an attractive light was banned.

3. Most curse words were banned.

4. Kisses couldn't be "lustful." They couldn't last more than three seconds.

5. Lovers weren't allowed to be horizontal. One partner had to keep one foot on the floor at all times.

6. Beds were not allowed to accommodate more than one person.

7. Even actors portraying married couples had to be shown sleeping in separate beds.

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainmen...nned-showing-now-ridiculous/story?id=28844678
 
Dancing_Queen said:
Thanks, Ohio. I know about the "X," but simply have a hard time contemplating an entire generation's signing that way. With all of the hoopla right now about signing ballots and checking signatures...
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Does anyone seriously imagine that kids won't figure out how to sign their names, with or without formal instructions in cursive writing?
C'mon folks. Give them some credit, would you?
 
StarSong said:
Does anyone seriously imagine that kids won't figure out how to sign their names, with or without formal instructions in cursive writing?
C'mon folks. Give them some credit, would you?
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My point, Star, is that the educational system figures it's not important for them to learn how to do this. And, if they're not taught, is there any reason for them to bother learning it if no one expects it of them? Sure, many will -- but I believe that many won't.
 
The days without Internet. This meant going to the library and looking up everything, but first finding where to look by checking various, topic specific, indexes. But -- it also meant being able to sit in the stacks with a pile of journals and quickly browsing the tables of content to determine which articles to read.
 
When they first came out there were no elastic gathers, they had sticky tapes that tore the plastic, they were stiff and scratchy, the paper padding shifted and bunched, they fit poorly, they leaked something awful, and they cost a fortune.
 
Dancing_Queen said:
My point, Star, is that the educational system figures it's not important for them to learn how to do this. And, if they're not taught, is there any reason for them to bother learning it if no one expects it of them? Sure, many will -- but I believe that many won't.
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Sorry - been out of town so didn't see your reply.

I have great faith in upcoming generations. They'll figure out how to sign their names. Cursive isn't rocket science, after all. It's linking printed letters together. There's no law saying that signatures must be written in cursive - a goodly portion of our generation's signatures are little more than wavy lines, and are far from legible.

My own signature is half cursive, half printed, and has been that way since college. Have had people comment that it would be difficult to forge - my children found it impossible!
 

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