Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: G.P. McDougall & Son Kitchen Cabinets

This advertisement, from April 1905, features one of the fine cabinets, for which many patents were issued, made by G.P. McDougall & Son. George P. McDougall, a lifelong Indianapolis resident, was born in 1844.  His...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: Hoosier Kitchens, Cabinets, and Refrigerators in 1919

I think most of us have heard of the Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet, right? (There is one on display at the President Benjamin Harrison Home, if I’m not mistaken.) Thumbing through Good Housekeeping from 1919, there...

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