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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 2000
Page
26
This glimpse describes childhood before modern tech with home music and outdoor play. It notes safe neighborhoods, rare telephone use, party lines, shared lines and little privacy. It contrasts kerosene lamps with late electric lighting and cities wired for electricity in the 1910s.
A snapshot of past daily life contrasts modern convenience with old habits. Horses and buggies were common while cars were rare and expensive. families shopped at small stores for meat fish and vegetables. ice delivered by iceman and milk by milkwoman. many relied on wood or coal stoves and cod liver oil daily. Patent medicines flourished until 1906 when laws curbed them.
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