From Colson Company to modern industry in Elyria
A retrospective on Colson Company's rise from 1890s bicycle parts to later wheelchairs and hand trucks, noting key figures in its 30 year club, the 1962 sale of its Elyria business, and the shift in industry toward profit driven practices. The piece laments fewer long serving clubs and praises skilled labor and wise management behind Elyria’s strong industrial heritage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colson Company
Elyria
Colson
Invacare
Peace activist Folsom leads cross country to push for disarmament
Franklin Folsom, 80, Colorado author of 40 children's books, joined 600 marchers in the Great Peach March for Global Nuclear Disarmament. A year after walking coast to coast in 3,000 miles, he led 229 Americans on a three week peacenik trek to Russia with 200 Soviet walkers, addressing 30,000 in Novgorod. Each marcher spent about 2,500 of personal funds, and Folsom urged Soviet children that American kids seek peace. He predicts the U.S. peace movement will eliminate all nuclear weapons within 10 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Folsom
Colorado
Folsom
Boulder
Les W. Lindeman
Les
Russia
Pennsylvania
Novgorod
U.S
Les Lindeman
Novgorod Square
United States
Laundry debate marks 80th Maytag machine anniversary
At Jasper County Historical Museum celebrations marking 80 years since the first successful washing machine, visitors debate whether progress or burden follows household laundry. Maytag officials defend modernization while Ruth Schwartz Cohen argues laundry consumes more time today due to more clothing and frequent washing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Franklin
Towa
Fred L. Maytag
Jasper County Historical Museum
Maytag Co
Des Moines
Ruth Schwartz Cohen
The
State University of New York At
Stony Brook
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John Noveske
Bill Sudro
Earl Hartley
Herb Limpach
Floyd Drusendahl
Mike Galley
Ed Bittner
Charles Rawson
Jay Rawson
Bill Guyeske
Walter Roosevelt
Neely Powers
Walter Smith
George Bohn
L.A. Obitts
Art Davis
Charles Simkins
Clarence Haas
Chris Harrison
Andy Glowiske
Floyd Lynch
Bill Gillespie
Earl Harper
Herman Scholl, George Woodcock
Carl Tomasheska
Ed Myers
Art Tedrow
John Pehrson
Clem Simmons
John Shoulter
Ed Nickols
Charles Goss
Clyde Clapp
Charles Coniam
Walter Bagwell
Francis Comerford
Kay Johnson
Garford
American Bicycle Company
New York
Automobile and Cycle Part Company
Garford Company
Studebaker
Elyrian
Winslow Larmartine Fay
Fay Manufacturing Company
Earl Jolley
Connie Davis
Amblin
Bard Lindeman
Lindeman
P.O. Box
Orlando
Fla
Leningrad
Moscow
Lake Ridge Academy
Center Ridge Road
North Ridgeville, Phin
East River Medical
East River St
Lorain Corford
Olvertin Ave
Sandusky
Sycamore
ANA
sPeris
Maytag
Cohen
Barb Heki
Dependability Square
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