Household Questions From A Vintage Guide
Household tips cover mirror glare avoidance brass cleaning omelet stabilization with sugar and cornstarch velvet pressing by two people, vegetable water sauce method, banana ripening in a paper bag, and using a thimble to aid glove mending.
Advertising's impact on American manufacturing value
In 1869 the per unit of population value of manufactured products was $89.60. By 1929 this per unit value rose to $579.70. Advertising spurred demand that tripled to quadrupled employment and reduced consumer product costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Smiling Through Promises Relief from Monthly Cramps
An old advertisement urges women to avoid nagging husbands and to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to ease discomforts from menstrual and hormonal transitions. It appeals to three generations and frames the product as nature’s aid during girlhood, motherhood preparation, and middle age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia B. Pinkham
Nature
Lydia E. Pinkiam
Right Bas Preference Quote by Horace
A compact quotation notes that a good and faithful judge prefers what is right to what is expedient. It presents Horace's view on integrity and fairness as guiding principle for judgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace
Los Angeles
Clark
Covered Wagon Recreates Pioneers Journey to Northwest Territory
A single ox drawn Conestoga wagon and costumed travelers reenact the 1787 Ohio Company migration from Ipswich to Marietta to settle the Northwest Territory. The pageant traces the Picker ing plan, land purchases, and the Ordinance of 1787, highlighting Manasseh Cutler and the dream of American frontier settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ipswich
Mass
Alleghenies
Old Northwest Territory
Northwest Territory
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New York
Pennsylvania
Sumerill’s Ferry
West Newton
Youghiogheny River
Monongahela
Allegheny
Pittsburgh
Ohio
Marietta
Old Northwest
Asseh Cutler
Rufus Putnam
Ohio Company of Associates
Ohio River
Cutler
Congress
Great Western Territory
Ohio Company
Seven Ranges
Kittaning Mountain
Jonathan Devol
Youghiogheny
Muskingum
Manasseh Cutler
Winthrop Sargent
Samuel Osgood
Arthur Lee
Treasury Board
Ohio Country
New England
Fort Harmar
Virginia
Muskinigum
Thomas Hutchins
United States
Muskingum Valley
Killingsly
Conn
Yale
Edgarton
Martha’s Vineyard
America
Seaboard
Abraham Lincoln
Douglas
Drapery Valance Board and Home Heating Tips
Instructions show Ruth Wyeth Spears describing a valance board setup using a straight board with finishing nails and screw eyes for quick hanging and removal. The piece also promotes efficient heating service and a Sears-like home sewing book by Spears with ordering details.
Musk Ox: North Northmost Hoofed Mammal Relics
The musk ox, a goat that became neither goat nor ox, lives only in barren northern Canada and Greenland. Its two coats guard it from Arctic cold. the long outer hair and soft inner fur shed in summer prevent overheating and suffocate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Greenland
Arctic
Also Mentioned on This Page
Nujol
Copr
Stanco Inc
Cheryd
Promised Land
Western Newspaper Union
Elmo Scott Watson
Newburgh
George Washington
N. Y
Continental Congress
Timothy Pickering
Bunch of Grapes
Boston
Swich
Ruth Wyeth Spears
John Barclay
WNN
Luden’s
P. G.B. Morriss