Happiness home magic for modern families
A feature explores homemaking as a shared goal for couples, noting how both spouses contribute to managing homes, budgets, and family life. It highlights Mrs Miller as a model homemaker, mentions community roles, work balance, and the appeal of home as a center of happiness. It also cites Bendix-Westinghouse and Pfandler Company workers, and war-era attitudes that link employment to home stability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bendix - Westinghouse
Homemakers find joy in family life across two households
A collection of brief portraits highlights Mrs. Floyd Miller and Mrs. Virginia Quade as working wives who balance careers with home life. Miller stays busy baking with her children at 223 Eastern Heights Blvd while her husband works as a senior test engineer. Quade, a Pfaudler Company clerk, and her barber husband built their own home at 303 North Orie St, reflecting shared labor and friendship. Other profiles include Alice Behr, a draftswoman in Heidelberg who hopes to become American, and a German-born artist interpreting wartime roles, now living in Oberlin with her real estate husband.
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Floyd Miller
Eastern Heights Blvd
Karen
Nathan
Daddy
Bendix-Westinghouse Automotive Air Brake Company
Oberlin School of Commerce
Aftter
Miller
A. C. Hadnett
Chronicle-Telegram
Mother
Erranas
McKinley School
Karl Quades
North
Orie St
Quade
Virginia
Pfaudler Company
Alice
G.I
Germany
Robert F. Behr
Heidelbergh
North Professor St. Oberlin
Behr
United States
Will Kennedy
Middle Ave
Bendrxx Westinghouse Automotive Air Brake Company
Antiques and pressed glass charm Elyria area collect wszyst
A writer shares a luncheon with a 71 year old collector, praising her charm and views on antiques. The piece discusses the value of collecting, safeguards of authenticity, and the appeal of pressed glass, ironstone, and Victorian wares. It highlights patterns like canary cannelure dolphin and Sandwich glass, noting dealers in Elyria.
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Elyria
Tmne
Sandwich
Cape Cod
England
Josiah Spode
James Mason
Men Are Guilty Too Pocket Survey Finds
Henderson Ky survey by Tri-State Plastic Molding Co housewares expert Trudy Star analyzes what men carry in pockets. It reports men store 15 to 30 items such as change, cigarettes, matches, keys, pens, aspirin, chewing gum, nails, wallets, combs, tickets, and more, similar to what women tote in handbags.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henderson, Ky
Trudy Star
Tri-State ‘Plastic Molding Co
Henderson
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Beng
Crawing Board
Prince Charming
Pfandler Company
Gwenalyn Melhinch
George Nicholas
Nurs Cora Wilker
Melhinch
Margaret Heinzerling
Loram
Hemzering
Bendix-Westinghouse Automotive
Robert Emmons
Yesterlyear
Broad Land
Elyna
Webster
Mr. Webster
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