Griswold Woman’s Basement Bottle Collection Grows
Pearl Osler Doolittle of Griswold guards a 1500 plus bottle collection started in 1917 during road trips with her late husband. She never buys bottles and preserves a Seattle prize found on a pier. The hobby spans medicines and apothecary bottles from Wormley Drug Store, bottles from all states except NH ME CT, and colorful liquor bottles shown with colored water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Osler Doolittle
Griswold
Mrs. Doolittle
Des Moines
Camp Dodge
Seattle
Wash
Seattle Pier
Plan Year-Round Color in Home Landscape
A guide to year long color in landscapes. Evergreens provide continuous green, with trees and shrubs adding bark, berries, and structure. Desirable evergreens include juniper cedar yews blue spruce pines and flowering evergreens like rhododendrons laurels pieris azaleas. Deciduous shrubs such as roses sythia viburnum and flowering quince offer seasonal color. winged euonymous adds fall foliage. Pyracantha and cotoneaster supply red berries, and white or copper birch adds colored bark.
Nation’s soil wealth ties to people’s needs
The statement asserts a country’s wealth rests on soil resources surpassing its population’s requirements. It emphasizes resource abundance as a measure of national strength and self sufficiency in food production and land use.
Life in Chile Pictured By Atlantic Girl
Mrs. Wayne Maddox of Atlantic describes Chile as split between rich and poor with many slums and shacks. She notes German Yugoslav and British control of wealth, two copper mines run by Americans, wine grapes, fishing, and limited heating. Public schools for poor, private for rich, inflation, and a rising Communist influence with U.S. Peace Corps aid. The Maddoxes plan to remain in foreign service with postings to come.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chile
Wayne Maddox
Atlantic
Church
U.S
Argentina
U.S. Peace Corps
Kathy
Foreign Service
Basement traffic shapes home layout and wear
The basement serves as a main exit to the yard and a busy passage in families with pools. It doubles as a dressing area and storage for life preservers, lounge chairs, and beach items. Extra basement doors may increase indoor traffic and disturb upstairs residents.
Factory reject seat belts warn half safety at auto shop
An auto upholstery shop advertises seat belts as factory rejects with the cheeky claim that they make customers only half safe. The sign targets bargain seekers and notes lower prices for imperfect belts.
Door to Yard Access for Outdoor Living
A house to yard exit enables exterior recreation and easy movement of food and gear without disturbing indoor routines. It notes doors to the yard can be used over a hundred times daily by a typical family on a summer weekend.
Also Mentioned on This Page
New Hampshire
Maine
Con
Mrs. Doolittie
Eld Bettie
Tractor Tire Service
Whit
Ewalls
Zie
Firestone
Sereies
Iowa
Firestone Store
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!