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Neolectress: New term to replace housewife in electric era
The first nation wide effort to drop the word housewife in favor of Neolectress has chosen this new term as a modern homemaker definition. Dr Charles E Funk selects Neolectress from over a thousand submissions for its etymology and electricity aided home relief. The contest awards Frigidaire to the winner and electric appliances to finalists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Funk
New York
West Texas Utilities Company
Ben D. Parker
Abilene
Funk
F. B. Probandt
San Angelo
W. B. Bourland
Oklainton
Parker
Probandt
Thor
Bourland
Lee White
Dalhart
O. R. Bodeen
Childress
Jane Yeager
Rochelle