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Hartford Courant, Connecticut, May 14, 1922

To dream of:

Ice - Success
Idiot - Grief
Illumination - Poverty and worry
Images - Bad luck
Inheritance - Death of a relative
Ink - Spilling ink, breaking an engagement of separation from a friend; dreaming of ink in any other way a favorable omen
Insanity - to dream of insanity of some other person, grief; to dream of yourself becoming insane, assurance of a long life
Intoxication - Increase of fortune, recovery of health
Inundation - Sadness, sickness
Iron - Profits; if burning hot, sorrows
Island - Desertion
Itch - Good luck
Ivy - True friends
Janitor - Beware of gossip
Jaundice - Beware of treachery 
Jaws - Sickness
Jay - Sorrow and trouble
Jewelry - Trouble and danger
Judge - Beware of slander and malice
Kettle - To dream of a black kettle means death
Keys - Anger, worry, want
Killing - Killing a person is generally a bad omen, foretells distress, and even death; to kill some one else, worry over enemies
King - Beware of flattery and cheatery 
Kiss - Kissing a relative, beware of treason; kissing a hand of a person, friendship, good fortune; kissing a stranger, journey
Knee - Being wounded in the knee, disappointment, worry; kneeling down to a person, trouble; unable to use the knee, poverty, bad news; sore or painful knee, sickness
Knife - Quarrel, separation; if you dream of a knife wounding you, danger
Labyrinth - You will make a great discovery
Ladder - Climbing a ladder, success; descending a ladder, great loss and trouble, ruin
Lake - Clear water, fortells friends; muddy or agitated water, quarrels
Lamb - Good luck
Lame - Trouble, sickness
Lantern - Success
Larks - Alive, good luck; roasted
Laudanum - Misfortune
Laugh - worry and loss
Laundry work - You will have to work running over one, worry
Lawyer - Quarrels, troubles, losses, hard for other people
Lawn - Gazing upon one, good health; trouble, imprisonment 
Lead - Inheritance 
Leaves - Sickness
Legs - Journey, success, money; wooden legs, bad luck
Letter - Visit by a friend or good news
Letter carrier - Important news
Light - To see in a drea, a great light is an omen, great honors and riches are in store for you; it predicts success in love, happy married life, blessed with children
Lightning - Love quarrels
Limping - Business troubles
Linen - Riches 
Lion - Seeing one, you will find some new good friend or make an acquantice of one soon; killing or laming the lion, great success; seeing a lioness with young, domestic happiness
Liquor - Riches
Lizards - Danger
Lobster - Alive, success; cooked, joy
Locomotive - Unpleasant journey
Lottery - Loss and failure 
Magician - Beware of treachery
Man - A girl dreaming of man; beware of gossip; if he is plain or ugly, quarrel; clear trouble and loss of money 
Manure - Great financial luck
Marble - Inheritance 
Marriage - With a relative, danger; with a handsome person, joy; with a plain or ugly looking person, sorrow
Masquerade - Seeing one, beware of deception; taking part in one, success
Mass - To dream of attending mass denotes happiness
Matches - Riches
Meadow - Comfort and prosperity 
Meat - Pleasure and prosperity 
Medicine - Taking it, sickness, distress; administering it to someone else, profit 
Menagerie - You will enjoy true friendship
Melon - Good health; if the dreamer is a sick person, it denotes a speedy recovery
Mending clothes and stockings - Unhappiness 
Merchandise - Seeing a great amount of it piled up, beware of thieves
Merchant - Meeting some merchant of importance, success
Message - Receiving one, advance in life
Mice - Trouble
Mill - Success, riches, inheritance 

Coal powered central heating, defense housing, Bantam, Connecticut, January 1942
The heating unit is in the kitchen of Fred Heath’s four-room apartment in the new federally-financed homes for eighty families just a few minutes from the Warren...   High-res

Coal powered central heating, defense housing, Bantam, Connecticut, January 1942

The heating unit is in the kitchen of Fred Heath’s four-room apartment in the new federally-financed homes for eighty families just a few minutes from the Warren McArthur factory in Bantam. The well-insulated coal fire puts steam in the radiators and provides the heat for cooking. The tenants are well-pleased although on several nights when the temperature dropped to ten degrees below zero they were forced to replenish the fuel every two or three hours.

Defense housing, Bantam, Connecticut, January 1942
Fred Heath runs a turret lathe at the Warren McArthur plant, where he’s been working since August 1941. He formerly worked in a machine shop in his native city Torrington. One of the first families...   High-res

Defense housing, Bantam, Connecticut, January 1942

Fred Heath runs a turret lathe at the Warren McArthur plant, where he’s been working since August 1941. He formerly worked in a machine shop in his native city Torrington. One of the first families to move into the new war workers’ homes in Bantam, the Heaths, who have been married for five years, had previously been living in a furnished room in Torrington. Mrs. Heath formerly lived in Winsted, a town of about 25,000 people just a dozen miles from Torrington. They are proud of their new home and of the comfortable new furniture they bought on the installment plan in Torrington. They have besides the kitchen, a large living room, a modern bath, a medium-sized master bedroom and a smaller room for their three-year-old daughter, Ann.

Defense housing, Bantam, Connecticut, January 1942
Three-year-old Ann Heath, daughter of Fred Heath, who operates a turret lathe in the Warren McArthur casting room. She has her own little footstool so that she can wash her own hands in the sink of...   High-res

Defense housing, Bantam, Connecticut, January 1942

Three-year-old Ann Heath, daughter of Fred Heath, who operates a turret lathe in the Warren McArthur casting room. She has her own little footstool so that she can wash her own hands in the sink of the bathroom in the four-room defense housing unit where the Heaths live. Ann had quite a trying time getting used to the size of the new apartment, after having lived most of her life with her parents in a single furnished room in Torrington.