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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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A Visit To Old Bordeaux

March 21, 2010 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

[Due to a blog glitch, I have re-posted this story.] Last Friday, my aunt Twyla and Uncle Wally Yates, my cousins Edris and Jack Harbeston, my brother Dave Yates and his wife Kathy, and my husband Jim and I, went on a little adventure so Wally could visit “one more time” the old town of [...]

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Bordeaux Washington Mill Saws The Last Log In 1941

January 15, 2010 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

I have recently been going through some of my old newspapers and found another article about the last days of Bordeaux, WA. This one is from the Daily Olympian dated 26 Sept 1941. I scanned it so I could send it to my uncle in California who used to live in this logging town, but [...]