Janice, Did you look up the history on your Deocrah Posten?
Here is some interesting trivia taken from
http://www.naha.stolaf.edu/pubs/nas/...27/vol27_5.htm
"In the 1890s, Decorah-Posten also arranged with a sewing machine manufacturer to sell his product under the name Husvennen (The Friend of the House). Through what likely was one of the most original offers ever made by a newspaper, a person could receive Decorah-Posten for one year and a sewing machine at a bargain price of $22.25. Women referred to Husvennen, which the paper sold for many years, as “the Decorah-Posten sewing machine.” They ordered needles and parts under that designation."