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  • Electricity Makes Women Free

    Electricity Makes Women Free

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    Coffee-makers, blenders, mixers, can-openers, toasters, juicers, ranges and refrigerators. How could we live without these appliances? We could, but life has been so easy since electricity came into America’s kitchens. Nearly a century ago, Westinghouse Electric boasted that “electricity makes women free.” It does a great deal for men, too!

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Past Article

Ray Hahn
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Thousands of places in America have interesting histories. The old Central Hotel, “at the end of the line” in Brookville, Kansas, is but one. As Postcard History examines our past one postcard at a time, it may be the places that have only one postcard like the Central, later the Brookville Hotel that are the most interesting.

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