NEWTON, Iowa (AP) -- The last washers and dryers were rolling off Maytag assembly lines here Thursday and the 550 workers who built them were preparing to leave the 2 million-square-foot factory for ...

Question: This old Maytag electric wringer washing machine was my mother's. It is still in good working order. What can you tell me about it? Answer: Frederick Maytag founded his washing machine ...

We don’t know how old our washing machine is. Maytag model A308, serial # 888032AL, when entered into several appliance-age websites (yes, these exist) generates a result that claims that the machine ...

Ward W. O'Hara Agricultural & Country Living Museum, special to The Citizen Ward W. O’Hara was a founder of the Agricultural & Country Living Museum that bears his name, located at Emerson Park in ...

You’ve probably heard the hoary phrase about somebody “being put through a wringer.” That refers to obsolete technology. Decades ago, many home washing machines sported a funky-looking double roller ...

It’s ironic that the closing of the factory occurs 100 years after the development of Fred Maytag’s first washing machine in Newton. It was in 1907 that he made and marketed first wooden-tub washing ...

Through innovation and marketing, that business became such a success that in 1924 one of every five washing machines sold in the United States was a Maytag. The name Maytag wasn't just on the factory ...