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iPentimento Will Be Back In September

July 10, 2010 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

Just to let everyone know, I will be gone for a few weeks on vacation. Thanks for visiting iPentimento | Genealogy and History while I’m gone. I hope you enjoy some of my previous posts. Carol Yates Wilkerson on Google+

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The Home Friend 1909: Sears House Plans

July 1, 2010 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

The Home Friend 1909: Sears, Roebuck and Company House Plans The Sears Catalog is long gone now, and at the end they were certainly not selling houses, but as you can see from this 1909 ad in the Home Friend they had a running concern for them at that time. How many of you live [...]

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Home Friend 1909 – Watch and Ring from out of the Bluine

May 12, 2010 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

Have you ever noticed that some of your laundry detergents these days have a blue tinge to them? That’s a bluing agent added to make them seem more white than they really are. Before there was laundry soap, there was just plain soap and a need to make clothes whiter. Mom always had a bottle [...]