4. This Week's Stories and Requests for Help   
      
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   to highlight one of your favorite collectibles!   
      
   Jacque E. From VA sent us this email. It's not quite a recipe request, so we   
   thought this would be a good place to post it.   
      
      
   Not sure if this qualifies as a "recipe request" but -- back in the 1930's,   
   after losing everything they owned, my grandparents and their 4 children   
   rented an old farm.  My aunt was a teenager and she made wonderful scrapbooks   
   during those years for 4-H and church activities.  She cut pictures out of   
   magazines and put them in groups to illustrate the information - how to choose   
   clothing styles, or health issues.  When I found them a couple years ago, I   
   was impressed by her creativity   
      
   One thing really has me  mystified - what did she use for glue? Today in the   
   hobby of scrapbooking one of the most important factors is using acid-free   
   paper, ink, and glue or adhesives.  I have pages in my 4-H record book from   
   the 1960's with newspaper clippings about activities and swatches of fabric or   
   yarn used in my projects.  Many of the attachments are dark brown now - but   
   some are okay.  I think the brown ones were attached with rubber cement - the   
   okay ones may be Elmer's glue?   
      
   I doubt my aunt had much money to buy glue but I might be wrong. Does anyone   
   know what kind of glue (or paste?) was available to buy back then, in   
   Illinois?  Is there a recipe for a home-made adhesive? The pages she glued   
   things on not only haven't had the paper deteriorate but they are also very   
   flat and smooth, no lumps or ridges.  Wish she was still alive to ask.  She   
   was the oldest and my father was much younger.  He's the only one still alive   
   and he has no idea what she used for glue.  If anyone can help with this   
   mystery I will really appreciate it!!   
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