In the days before an electric refrigerator in every kitchen, there were ice boxes. Those ice boxes were cooled by a block of ice in the top that had to be refreshed regularly. Local farmers often harvested ice from local lakes and stored it in ice houses, packed in straw and sawdust to save it for the summer months.In cities, an ice service would store winter ice for delivery to homes t...
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