Advertisements for Better Home Week in an April 1924 edition of the Stratford Beacon Herald highlighted the dishwasher
Let’s rewind a century to the Saturday, April 5, 1924, edition of the Stratford Beacon Herald, which was full of advertising for the upcoming Better Homes Week. Topics ranged from how to spruce up your décor with new paint, mirrors, lamps, etc. to improving your home comfort with a phonograph. There were articles, like the one copied below, touting modern conveniences, especially for the kitchen. Time-saving devices like the electric waffle iron, electric iron, electric stove, electric toaster, and one particularly attractive new appliance, the dishwasher, were featured topics.
“Electrical Dish Washer Relieves Heavy Home Task
The Very Handy invention Has Come to Stay and Saves Much Time and Labor
Housewives from time immemorial have been so accustomed to washing utensils and dishes by hand that they have come to look on this part of the routine of housekeeping as a necessary evil. Probably there is no other task that becomes so tremendously monotonous to the housewife as dish washing.........