| | The Gamewell Company
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The tremendous fire losses of the early days of this country were due not
only to primitive fire lighting equipment and inferior building construction
with flammable materials, but in a very large degree to the entire absence of
facilities for quickly announcing the existence and locations of fires.
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| | Porcelain Insulator News
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| | by Elton Gish, NIA #41
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This month we will feature a multipart porcelain insulator that was recently
found by Mike Spadafora on a trip he made last summer to Ontario. More
specifically, on an old power line between Niagara Falls and Toronto.
Mike found two identical three-piece, multipart insulators which style is
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| | Walking The Line
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| | by Mike Tucker
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BIDDLE AND BITS
This is an account of my very first threadless insulator hunting trip in mid-April in Wyoming.
l am just beginning to collect threadless and am very much
interested in searching for them. I went with two beginners in the hobby, Mike
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| | The Denver Mines
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About a month ago, a friend came to visit and talk "Denvers"
(Denver glass insulators)...and brought some photos from a recent field trip. He
had been doing some exploring around an old mining operation and stumbled onto a
small power substation that had been abandoned almost 30 years ago. "We've
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| | Early Hemingray Advertising
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From the ELECTRICAL REVIEW, April, 1906, Elton Gish sends the following ad.
from the Hemingray Glass Company. One might consider exposition of one's
"teats" as pornographic at the "turn of the
century."
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| | Telephone Signs Of Western Canada
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| | by Morgan Davis
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The western provinces of Canada, having established early Government
telephone services, are quite diverse in logos and colors insofar as telephone
signs go. After visiting with Bill Lovely of Regina, I was dazzled by the
variety compared to the typical blue and white motifs of Ontario. Thanks for the
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