Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nights after Christmas, the colored lights on three large fir trees on a sweeping lawn in the exclusive Point Defiance residential section of Tacoma, Wash., glowed festively through a steady drizzle. They threw a gay pattern on the white front of a fine gabled house. In the living room of the house, where another gaily lighted tree stood, 10-year-old Charles Mattson, his 16-year-old brother Billy, his 14-year-old sister Muriel and her schoolgirl chum from Seattle played and talked as they waited for Dr. & Mrs. William Wrhitlock Mattson to return from a wedding reception...
LILLIAN EPLEY Spokane, Wash...
...proprietors of KVOS, a 100-watt "coffeepot"* radio station in Bellingham, Wash., 70 miles from Seattle, had a fine idea. Why not start a "Newspaper of the Air" with three or more daily editions to keep KVOS fans up to the minute on world affairs? For advertising, there was the business of Bellingham merchants who would pay for interspersed announcements. For an editor, there was L. H. Darwin, who had once published a Bellingham paper. For news, there were the columns of the Bellingham Herald and the Seattle Times and Post-Intelligencer, all members of the far-flung Associated Press...
...Spokane, Wash...
Seated in a luxurious theatre watching a picture that is technically and artistically excellent, we are apt to forget the early "flickers" of the past and the enormous improvement that years of effort have wrought in the development of the motion picture. Such old favorites as "Wash Day Troubles" and "The Fugitive" are not only highly amusing to see today after several decades of progress, but are interesting in themselves for their amateurish depiction of people at the time that they were made...