Through the nice Depression, inhabitants of the "Dust Bowl" of the US Southern Plains location attempted to insulate their houses from the choking dust storms by making use of strips of fabric coated in flourbased glue or paste. These could then be pasted more than cracks all over window and doorway frames to try and continue to keep out the dust. City dwellers usually did a thing similar with newspapers, stuffing them in cracks in window frames in hopes of preserving their frigid tenement residences a bit hotter in opposition to winter's chill.