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Subject: Re: [ML] Ironing and ironing boards
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 16:02:03 EST
That sounds spmething like my mother's ironing board. I don't know now what
the bare board was, but we covered it with sheeting. There were no folding
legs. We propped it across chair backs.
Did your mother come by train to eastern Washington from Missouri? I
discovered one day, picking up a Montana quarterly in the library, that there was
quite a movement 1890s+ promoted by the railroads to sell the land granted by
the government for building the rr's. I believe that is the reason and way my
father's family of young adults came west. Then my parents came by train after
marriage in 1904, first to Red Lodge, Montana, then to Coeur d'Alene. Later
they moved south and homesteaded land in south central Idaho per Carey Act.
Helen
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