~ Fuller Brushes, Saturday Evening Post, June 19, 1926
via vintage ads livejournal
“Just tell the wife to phone the Fuller office in your city or drop a postcard to the address below. The Fuller Man will bring you one of these surprisingly inexpensive Shower outfits and tell you just how to use it to make you happy and to make the bath tub your favorite haunt.”
~ Live Better…Electrically, c. 1950’s
via Chronically Vintage
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“Are you spending too much time in the kitchen? Check the “Live Better Electrically” scale and see.”
~ Chicago Blue Book, 1903
via Internet Archive
“A practical machine for household use”
Note: The Garis-Cochran Dish-Washing Machine Company was established by Josephine Cochrane in 1897. After her death the company became part of KitchenAid. (via National Inventors Hall of Fame)
~ The Telephone and How We Use It, 1951
via Classic Rotary Phones
“There are many other uses of the telephone.”
~ Bluffton City Directory, May 1902
via Internet Archive
“They afford comfort and pleasing and enjoyable ride in the open air on a hot summer’s day. Just the thing for a satisfactory rest after a hard days toil.”
~ The White House Cook Book: Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc..Etc.. The Whole Comprising A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Information For the Home
by Mrs. F.L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann, 1887
~ Humatagraph, December 1933
via Grace’s Guide
“Colds, Rheumatism, etc., are caused more by Damp than by Cold!”
~ Woman’s Home Companion, October 1935
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“Put on your gloves, Mother, your hands look terrible!”
~ The Twentieth Century Cook Book, 1914
via internet archive
“The woman who does her own cooking will do it easier and take greater pleasure in her work if she is properly dressed.”
