Episode Synopsis "That Rest Room"

I’ve been talking lately about rest rooms — no-no, not about the odd preoccupation we seem to have nowadays as to who might be using what facility, but rather about the reform movement, in the early 1900s, which aimed to provide comfortable lounges for farm women who came to town with their husbands, transacted their business, and then were left in the lurch by husbands not yet ready to go home, and had to sit waiting in a livery or some such place.

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• Things Made of Words
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• The Captive Coyote
• An American Phenomenon
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• A Background of Forest and Farm
• The Rise of Regional Studies
• The Regional Project
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• Spotters and Piggers
• The Blind Pigger’s Farewell
• The Power of Printed Thought
• Book Showers
• The Invasion of Johnson County
• The Most Popular Man
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