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iPentimento Will Be Back In September

July 10, 2010 By Carol 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.

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The Home Friend 1909: Sears House Plans

July 1, 2010 By Carol 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 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 [...]

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The Home Friend 1909 – Ohio Carriage Mfg Company

April 12, 2010 By Carol Wilkerson

The automobile was still in its infancy, and the United States was no where near as dependant on oil as it is 100 years later in 2009. H. C. Phelps was a master of persuasive advertising, encouraging his customers to “cut out the middleman” and buy directly from him via the United States Postal Service. [...]