From utilitarian rag to status symbol, the handkerchief has had a long and rather significant history. That history was the subject of the Onalaska Area Historical Society’s March 20 program. Donna ...

You sneeze and someone replies, “God bless you,” or “Gesundheit!” You pull out a Kleenex to contain the sneeze. But, before the arrival of the Kleenex in the 1920s, there was the cloth “handkerchief” ...