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    Murphy bed (redirect from Bureau bedstead)
    president of the Murphy Bed and Door Company. Under the name "bureau bedstead" the fold-up bed appeared in the eighteenth century, but never gained popularity...
    11 KB (1,181 words) - 21:11, 17 August 2024
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    and dead. Soap was not dispensed. The water supply was inadequate. No bedstead or mattress was procurable. Fuel was scarce and had to be collected from...
    31 KB (4,219 words) - 05:00, 3 June 2024
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    observed as Douglass Day. "The old cabin, with its rail floor and rail bedsteads up stairs, and its clay floor down stairs, and its dirt chimney, and windowless...
    197 KB (20,866 words) - 01:04, 25 August 2024
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    rituals were just as demanding. Elisabeth slept without a pillow on a metal bedstead, which she believed was better for retaining and maintaining her upright...
    95 KB (11,642 words) - 20:40, 22 August 2024
  • Young the Great American Family" in Frank Leslie's Budget and "The Family Bedstead" in Roughing It, published in the 1870s, both satirised Mormon polygamy...
    25 KB (3,059 words) - 14:30, 20 April 2024
  • goats, and the fowls sleep indoors in a large basket. Skins form the only bedsteads. In each hut are two fireplaces, about which a rigid etiquette prevails...
    14 KB (2,329 words) - 12:15, 3 May 2024