| | Advertising Through the Ages
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| | by Bob Stahr
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Glenn Drummond sent this interesting Hemingray Glass Company ad from Gould's
1873 St. Louis Business Directory. Research has not verified that a Hemingray
factory was located in St. Louis. More likely than not, it was only a warehouse
and office.
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| | Ask Woody
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| | by N. R. Woodward
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N. R. "Woody" Woodward is the author of THE GLASS INSULATOR IN
AMERICA, 1988 Report and developed
the Consolidated Design Numbers identification system for glass insulators.
QUESTION: When I was at the London (Ohio) show last fall, I picked up a CD
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| | The Dominion (Battleford) Telegraph Part I
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| | by Mark Lauckner
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Perhaps the single most important mechanism by which the "Northwest
Territory" (Alberta and Saskatchewan) was settled would be the Canadian
Pacific Railway. There were, however, two earlier efforts responsible for
bringing settlers to the vast uninhabited area. One was the Northwest Mounted
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| | Red Insulators?
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| | by Dwayne Anthony
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"NOW, HERE IS THE REAL STORY"
"Have you ever seen a red glass insulator before? I saw one once. Yep,
it was in an antique shop. Just sittin' there pretty as you please, and it was a
real insulator, too! It had threads inside, some writing on the outside, and was
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| | Porcelain Insulator News
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| | by Elton Gish
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Variety is never lacking when it comes to collecting porcelain insulators. I
thought surely we would have rounded up most of the remaining new unipart styles
with the collector surveys sent out to those who helped me compile the Value
Guide for Unipart and Multipart Porcelain Insulators. Eighty-six new unipart
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| | East Coast Digging Adventure
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| | by David Bethman
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After hearing the many stories from some of my bottle digging friends about
the digging opportunities on the East Coast, I knew it was time to give it a
try. Since I am currently flying halftime as a corporate pilot, I had a chance
to do what might be a once-in-a-lifetime dig. I recruited two bottle digging
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