All through the nice Depression, inhabitants of your "Dust Bowl" of your US Southern Plains area tried to insulate their homes from your choking dust storms by utilizing strips of cloth coated in flourbased glue or paste. These could then be pasted around cracks around window and doorway frames to try and preserve out the dust. City dwellers generally did one thing related with newspapers, stuffing them in cracks in window frames in hopes of holding their frigid tenement residences a bit hotter in opposition to winter's chill.