The page from the Gazette of May 16, 1919, carrying that announcement also gives us an update to our continuing saga, Plumbing Hobart's Secrets. In this episode, George and Helen Rhodes have just returned from Philadelphia, where George had finally concluded his wartime plumbing mission. George was ready to hit the ground running in the service of Hobart's plumbing needs. Meanwhile, George Bruce — perhaps seeing the Lee & Rhodes juggernaut bearing down on him — had started rethinking his career in plumbing.
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More on Rhodes and Bruce, from the Hobart News of May 15, 1919.
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2 comments:
I always read everything else on the page..."spray your trees with calcium arsenate", and don forget to pick up some Fungi-Bordo, as well. OMG!
Paris Green also. Lots of suicides in the good old days were caused by easy access to these chemicals.
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