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Newspaper
Brookfield Magnet
Location
Brookfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1947
Page
2
A jumble of travel and family updates from Bucknell to Lake Louise and beyond. Readers list relatives visiting, vacations taken, and plans for late July and August, including moves to Maywood and Sunnyside Avenue, and a local college trip to Crystal Springs. Three Rivers and Chicago outings, plus attendance at a Red Mill show, fill the rural social ledger.
Carl W. Mott of 501 North Spring avenue LaGrange Park has a 40 year career as an inventor and engineer. He runs a surgical sponge plant at 9517 Ogden avenue Brookfield and partners in a Harvester dealership at Sycamore IA with his brother. Mott holds over 100 patents and designed engine attachments for grain binders and other farm machinery while working for International Harvester starting in 1910. He created a mass production round sponge machine turning out 300,000 sponges weekly and plans to double output with his son Carl Jr. He also produced the Fiddlet violin for class use and pursued multiple ventures including toy factory work and wood turning. He is described as practical, aggressive, and constantly on the move.
Red spiders multiply rapidly in warm dry weather and cause little damage to strawberry plants in cool periods. They can be controlled by dusting the plants with ordinary sulfur dust, preferably in warm weather where the kill is greater.
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