Thursday, December 3, 1936

EDNA LEAVES THE PAGE BLANK

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Edna did not write it down so we don't know what she did on this day in 1936.

A new edition of the Lowell Ledger was published on this day in 1936. Perhaps she spent part of her day reading the Ledger. Thanks to the Kent District Library, you can read the entire Lowell Ledger for that day, but I wanted to share a couple of interesting bits here.

There were ads and articles specific to / for woman in this edition (and in most editions of the Ledger at this time).

Take Pursang to feel like a new woman. Your appetite will improve. Nervousness disappears. Energy and strength USUALLY return.

Now! Women can be more comfortable and experience greater personal daintiness than EVER BEFORE.

There was also an advertisement letting people (likely the ladies) know what types of gifts men appreciate. There was not an ad letting men know what gifts to give to the women in their lives.

Finally, in this week's edition of the Lowell Ledger there is a column by author Kathleen Norris.

Norris wrote more than 90 novels, many of which were bestsellers. She also wrote stories that were printed in papers, such as the Lowell Ledger, and magazines like Ladies' Home Journal and The Atlantic.

Her writings often espoused moral values including "the sanctity of marriage and the nobility of motherhood." Norris was involved in the women's suffrage movement as well as a scandal in which she was captured in a photo with Charles Lindberg and Senator Burton Wheeler at an America First Committee Rally in 1941. In the photo they appeared to be giving a Nazi salute.

Norris' column for December 3, 1936 is WHAT DOES THE WORLD OWE THIS WOMAN?