Way back in time I wrote a column about wash day in my family when I was a young boy. I recalled the log cabin that my father built back in the mid 20s and the fast moving spring running beside it ...

You’ve probably heard the hoary phrase about somebody “being put through a wringer.” That refers to obsolete technology. Decades ago, many home washing machines sported a funky-looking double roller ...

Before the turn of the century, the central Iowa plains were littered with the broken-down remnants of F.L. Maytag`s handiwork, according to local legend. Sages in these parts tell how the farm ...

When I was growing up in the 1970s and early 1980s, my great-grandmother was still using a Maytag wringer washing machine that her family purchased in 1928. Saturday was wash day, and we'd spend the ...

Question: This old Maytag electric wringer washing machine was my mother's. It is still in good working order. What can you tell me about it? Answer: Frederick Maytag founded his washing machine ...

NEWTON, Iowa — Worry showed in the face of Linda Burkenholtz as she sat in a folding chair on the sidewalk outside the Jasper County Courthouse, behind a card table filled with freshly baked bread, ...