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Cleaning carpets by suction machinery is scarcely 20 years old. Before 1907 the housewife dragged a broom across the carpet nap or, when she could afford it, she bought a carpet sweeper. Bissel was the most popular make of sweeper. It had (and still has) a revolving brush that picked up lint, bread crumbs, hairpins, cigaret butts, needles, roaches, broom, straws, candy, germs. The matted filth made a capital nest for mice. But broom or sweeper cleaned only the surface of the carpet. To get the deeply imbedded dirt the careful housewife had to lift her carpets each spring, hang...
...owner, manager, scribe. Then northward, eastward they go for careful records show that after April 11 meteorological conditions from Boston to Chicago will permit professional baseball to operate at a profit on summer playgrounds. On April 12, brass gongs will resound in eight enclosures, dapper umpires will brush eight white rubber slabs, 200,000 spectators will give anticipatory cry? "Play ball...
Prophylactic Brush-the shipping clerks brag of their commercial geography knowledge; they ship these toothbrushes everywhere in the world-profits...
...nothing with such women! (I know from experience-but that is another story.) I warn you that if I ever find a fake TIME reader on the elevated here, he will be in the subway of some cemetery when I am finished with him. ROLF MARTIN BRUSH...
Advertising Awards (founded 1923 by Edward William Bok). Last week Dean Donham gave a gold medal to Orlando Clinton Harn, advertising manager and chairman of the sales committee for National Lead Co. Mr. Harn originated the famed Dutch Boy cavorting on National Lead paint can labels with his paint brush. Mr. Harn has organized and been active in various advertising associations; is resigning the presidency of the Audit Bureau of Circulation (the "A. B. C.," which verifies publishers' circulation figures), to be its general manager...