Ceramic Glass Ware

Various collectibles fit fans to a tea
Las Vegas Review-Journal
A: Pressed-glass crucifix candleholders were a popular religious item in the early 1900s, and were made by several different companies in various sizes and colors, including clear glass, milk glass, amber, blue, green, marigold, opal, purple and

Kenneth Smith
The Union of Grass Valley
Because the depression years were difficult for Ken and his family, he started college in 1935 at Utah State Agriculture College in Logan, Utah, but had to quit to earn some money. To earn money during those lean years, Ken worked at the Franklin

'Am I drinking too much?'
Telegraph.co.uk
I so look forward to that first glass of white in the evening, and have done ever since I recovered from the birth of my first child some 16 years ago. Before, I was more of an erratic party drinker. Today, even the smallest of social occasions

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Occupy Scandinavia's Long Winter
The Awl
We talked about the things that bothered her most, which ranged from homelessness in Stockholm to deregulation brought about by the Glass-Steagall Act in the US. She said some of the other occupiers there were satisfied with the political and economic

The herb that got too high
Irish Times
The varieties differ: white widow, amnesia haze or purple haze. She describes getting “whiteys” – turning white, getting sick – from the stronger home-grown grass which she tries to avoid. It doesn't stop her, though. “It's €50 a bag,

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