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In the Milholland
Most About Glass Insulators book there is a picture of an insulator listed as a Mine
insulator, page 115 (CD 188). This picture shows one way these insulators were
used. On telephone lines. In the early days of open wire line construction they were
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| | Death On Power Pole
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The following newspaper article, copied from The Kansas City Times, has been sent
in by quite a few of our subscribers. As I have said before, we dislike printing
this kind of story. But reading it may make people stop and think of what can
happen to them. And is any piece of glass worth the price of death, injury or
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| | Collecters of Insulators
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With the increases in the amount of leisure time over the past several years and with the prospect of more spare
time in the future, Americans have increasingly taken up the collection of rare items as hobbies.
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| | The Noti Insulator
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The following article was taken from The Electrical Engineer, September 1895, and was sent in by Elton and Lynda Gish, 614 Dallas Street, Port Neches, Texas 77651.)
We illustrate in the accompanying engravings a new insulator for which a patent has been granted to Albert
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| | Collecters of Insulators
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With the increases in the amount of leisure time over the past several years and with the prospect of more spare
time in the future, Americans have increasingly taken up the collection of rare items as hobbies.
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| | A Little Human Interest Story
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| | by Dora Harned
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No, the pictures aren't of insulators, but they are
made by a man who made insulators for about 15 years in a
factory in Vernon, California, a man whose name is very
familiar to all of us, Mr. William McLaughlin of
McLaughlin insulators, who is now 87 years young. I have
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| | CD143 Withycombe Letter
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| | by Timothy Askew
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In regards to the S.C.A. Canadian Beehive on pp. 19 & 20 in the November issue:
The one you have came from me in a trade at the National Meet in Colorado last summer. These insulators are very scarce (only about 20 known). I was the
one who found them. I have traded them for threadless on a one for one basis. it's hard
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| | Porcelain Insulator News
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| | by Jack H. Tod
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New markings seem to be the order of the day, and we have
some unexpected ones turning up and have attributed a few
of the ones reported previously. Some interesting new pin
type shapes have also turned up, and there may be nearly
100 new ones by the time the supplement to the Universal
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| | Our Hobby Is Getting A Black Eye
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Dear Dora,
Just a few lines to say we are still "here" and enjoying
every issue of CROWN JEWELS tremendously.
Enclosed find an article from our paper (The Daily News) on
Thursday the 1st of June.
Glass Insulators
Stolen, Power Out
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