09-04-2009, 02:19 PM
250 PAIRS OF SILK STOCKINGS FOR WAR
When Uncle Sam asked women to turn in old silk stockings to the government for use in making powder bags for big guns, he hit the jackpot at the Godfrey J. Isenbart home in Wilmore, Kas. Mrs. Isenbart is shown here with 250 pairs of silk hose which she and a daughter, Miss Margaret Isenbart contributed. Mrs. Isenbart and her daughter, who is now a home demonstration agent in Schuyler County, Missouri, had been saving their silk hose for years. The stockings shown in the bundles held by Mrs. Isenbart weighed twenty-six pounds.
The Isenbarts are farmers at Wilmore, which is in Comanche County.
-- Undated clipping from a Comanche County, Ks, newspaper.
Ollie Hackney's Clipping Collection.
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When Uncle Sam asked women to turn in old silk stockings to the government for use in making powder bags for big guns, he hit the jackpot at the Godfrey J. Isenbart home in Wilmore, Kas. Mrs. Isenbart is shown here with 250 pairs of silk hose which she and a daughter, Miss Margaret Isenbart contributed. Mrs. Isenbart and her daughter, who is now a home demonstration agent in Schuyler County, Missouri, had been saving their silk hose for years. The stockings shown in the bundles held by Mrs. Isenbart weighed twenty-six pounds.
The Isenbarts are farmers at Wilmore, which is in Comanche County.
-- Undated clipping from a Comanche County, Ks, newspaper.
Ollie Hackney's Clipping Collection.
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