Stories from Elsie Johnson
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Medicine Changes
What a difference in medicine and procedures – treatments since I graduated from nursing school in 1944. We wore our white starched unifor...
May Day in Iowa, 1930’s
May Day in Iowa was important and fun. Several days before May First, my sisters and I would be busy making little baskets out of constructi...
Male & Female
Recently, “60 Minutes” did a program on the discovery that male and female cells react to drugs and drug dosages differently. A study of...
Did You Ever Have To Wear Long
Cold Iowa winters made these necessary clothing for me. It was awful for a 4th-5th grade girl to go to school with lumpy legs. This conditio...
Blueberry Hill – My First Lo
“I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill On Blueberry Hill when I found you.” I met Bill the summer of ’39. His family was spending the...
An Achievement
Many families would take a Sunday afternoon drive for vacation. We had a 1930’s Willy’s Knight Sedan. While on these “outings” Dad w...
Home Remedies
Home Remedies Do you remember when door-to-door salesmen were welcomed into your home? The Fuller Brush Man – Watkins Products – encycl...
Haircuts and Hairstyles
Our father was the barber when we were young. We (the three of us) looked alike with the “Buster Brown” bangs and short hair. Mom would ...
First Christmas Together
It was our first Christmas together. We had been married four months and were so “in love”. We decided to send out Christmas cards and h...