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When you purchase a piece of the earth for a home ... in Maywood Colony, California
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"California Home Economist"
Manuscripts
7 items: three complete issues of California Home Economist, 11/1947, 2/1948 and 5/1948 ; two complete issues of California Home Economics News Letter, 1/1947 and 5/1947 ; related booklets.
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What you can do in civilian defense : a complete handbook telling you the how, when, and why of volunteer activities on the home front
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[Rhoads, Horace Emerson]. Untitled manuscript beginning, "When you purchase a family membership in the San Diego Club:" [articles] [undated]
Manuscripts
The collection is single-item cataloged and contains 759 items including 92 manuscripts. Most of the manuscripts are documents regarding the advertising, circulation, and financial concerns of The Los Angeles record, The San Diego sun, and The San Francisco daily news from the early 1910s. The other substantial manuscripts are diaries of Adaline Rhoads and Roscoe Maxwell Rhoads detailing the social life and customs of late-19th century Indiana and early-20th century Southern California. Adaline Rhoads wrote about her daily chores, the activities of her children and her travels. Roscoe Maxwell Rhoads also details his attempts to mend his health through exercise, various diets, bathing in magnetic wells and two visits to the Battle Creek Sanitarium in the late 1890s. Roscoe Maxwell Rhoads also detailed the family's journey from Anderson, Indiana to San Diego, California and their later move to La Jolla, California. The collection contains 102 pieces of correspondence, the majority of which are addressed to Horace Emerson Rhoads regarding the newspaper business. There are also a significant number of letters from Horace Emerson Rhoads regarding the newspaper business and the San Diego Athletic Club. There are letters concerning San Diego and California politics, including three letters regarding the purchase of an airplane for the governor of California. Rhoads received letters on the subject of honorary membership in the Los Angeles Record Newsboys' Club. The collection also contains letters regarding participation in La Jolla events and politics.
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HOME Magazine - California Regional Foods
Manuscripts
Approx. 20 items: memos, notes, articles and recipes related to California Regional Foods-themed issue of Home magazine, which eventually ran with LAT on 10/20/1957.
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