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turn of the century Domino sugar advertisement

Home Making a Business, and other pages from the July 1917 issue of The Modern Priscilla

I think that the turn of the century business advice for women was just fascinating. It’s “The story of a woman’s success in adapting the materials at hand and developing from them a pleasant and profitable occupation….” . The middle section is about how to stop food waste, which in 1917 was estimated at $700,000 [...]