Electric kitchen era spreads in Central Texas homes
Low electricity costs from the Lower Colorado River Authority lift housework with an electric kitchen. The article notes electric ranges, refrigerators, dishwashers, water heaters, and ovens improving convenience, cutting labor, and making appliances affordable, with bills down to only a few cents a day.
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Central
Texas
Colorado River Authority
Nedest Meais
Dong
LCRA
Water Pumping Aid To Growers
The piece highlights how electrical power supports farm irrigation and home kitchens in Texas. It notes electric water heaters ranges dishwashers and refrigeration aiding housewives and gardeners. It cites irrigation costs and water supply systems benefiting livestock and crops alongside aStatistical note from USDA on frozen vegetable packing volumes in the Civil War era archive.
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Texas
Gardners
Pacific Coast
University of Texas Library
Kilowatt hours explained as man work in old article
The piece translates a kilowatt hour into man-labor terms from two to nine days of work, comparing pumping hammering lifting and shoveling to electrical energy. It notes LCRA rates make a kilowatt hour cost several dollars and cites UT engineer W R Woolrich on propaganda in scientific journals. It also mentions the death of Lever of South Carolina last week in April.
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Taera Kwoltehpur
Edison Electric Institute
Institute
Texas
LCRA
Tormer Congr Lever
South Carolina
Smith-Lever
United States Department of Agriculture
Columbia
D. C
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Germany
W. R. Woolrich
University of Texas
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Frigidaire
Home Appliance Company
C. J. Whigham Manager
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