Plumber News: A Move, A National Write-Up and a Little Spigot

Things were going very well for Charles Lee. First, his firm was doing such a good business that they had to find larger quarters, according to the Hobart News "Personal and Local Mention" column of October 23, 1913: "Lee & Bruce have rented the Black building, which has been used as a pool room, and will move their plumbing establishment into this room shortly after election. This firm has grown out of its present quarters and needs a larger room." (I'm assuming the reference to "election" was to the local elections in November.)

Then his firm got a write-up in a national magazine:


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Those little one-liners about "Tell it to Richmond" are advertising for a competitor, William S. Richmond, who recently opened a plumbing business in Hobart.

A month later, a daughter!