Electric appliances spark a home revolution in California
The piece traces the rise of electrical household devices led by the Hot-Point iron. Engineer E. H. Richardson built a plant in Ontario after refining irons in San Bernardino County, expanding to cooking sets and other appliances. Housewives’ ideas shaped major improvements as the Hot-Point company now sells well over a million units annually.
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San Bernadino County
California
Los Angeles
E. H. Richardson
Ontario
Hot-Point Company of
Building Material From The Eclipse Company
Eclipse Lumber company of Monticello supplied nearly all building material for the new electric building. Harry I. Rodman, manager, notes the company aided the city’s notable addition and plans to help with planning and estimates.
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Eclipse Lumber Company
Monticello
Harry I. Rodman
East First Street
Rodman
Washers In Use Valued At One Billion Dollars
A statistician claims over one billion dollars are invested in electric washing machines with about 9.59 million units in use. Within eleven years the washer became a leading home labor saving device and is often the first electric appliance installed in new wired homes. Ironer sales rise as washers are redesigned for appearance.
Roy Jacque Finishes Interior Exterior of New Electric Building
Roy Jacque and assistants completed the interior and exterior work on the new electric building. The knotty pine interior was mostly finished in the factory, with numerous small detailing tasks completed by local painters.
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Roy Jacque
Frigidaire Displays At Iowa Electric Showroom
The Iowa Electric company features an excellent display of the new modern 1936 Frigidaire models in its showroom. The machines are praised for beauty, quality, and low price and come with a five year protection plan. They offer fast freezing, frozen storage, extra cold storage, moist storage, and normal storage for home refrigeration.
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Iowa Electric Company
New G E Refrigerators And 1936 Stoves Shown
The Crescent Electric company of Cedar Rapids is the jobber furnishing the new 1936 General Electric monitor top and flat top refrigerators for the Iowa Electric company. They are superior in design with few conveniences and also distribute General Electric ranges for efficient cooking. Visit the Towa Electric company's store to see these new models.
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Crescent Electric Company
Cedar Rapids
General Electric
Iowa Electric Company
Towa Electric Company
Iowa Steel & Iron Works Part in New Building
The Iowa Steel & Iron Works of Cedar Rapids contributed to the new Iowa Electric Company building. The firm, known for structural steel and gray iron castings, has long served Iowa contractors in erecting building posts across the territory.
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Iowa Steel & Iron Works
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Electric Company
Iowa
McNeill Hardware Supplying Town Electric Building Fittings
The Modern Builders' hardware used in the Town Electric Company building came from McNeill Hardware. The fittings match the new building's beauty and quality.
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Town Electric Company
McNeill Hardware
Electricity Rates Reduced For Homes And Businesses
The company unveils new electricity rates lowering residential charges to 7 6 4 and 2.9 cents per kwh with a $1 minimum, and commercial rates of 7 6 4 and 3.4 cents per kwh, plus a $1 minimum. Examples show small and large users paying less under the new schedule.
First Local Plant under Monticello Electric Company 1891
The Monticello Electric Company history outlines leadership changes from J. W. Coxsee to D. E. Pond and later J. S. Hall and O. H. Loctje, with Hall briefly superseded by H. M. Carpenter. Rufus P. Smith served as secretary treasurer throughout, while power relied on Monticello mills and Lang family assets. In 1910, 3600 incandescent lights and 15 arc lamps lit the town. later, F. J. Cross added a large diesel engine and built a Central City plant.
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Mont'son
H. J. Lang Jr
Horetio J. Lang
Lang
Iowa Electric Company
Gine. Sr
J. W. Coxsee
D. E. Pond
J. S. Hall
O. H. Loctje
Mr. Hall
H. M. Carpenter
Rufus P. Smith
Monticello Electric Company
Monticello
Horatio J. Lang
Harry Lang
Electric Company
Dexter Washer Company Joins Iowa Electric Store Opening
The Dexter company of Fairfield Iowa a long time washing machine maker takes part in the opening of the new Iowa Electric Company store. The firm is noted as one of America's oldest and strongest washing machine manufacturers and has acted as agent and seller for Dexter washers for years.
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Dexter Company
Fairfield
Iowa
Iowa Electric Company
America
The
Rubber Tile Floor Attracts Attention In Cedar Rapids Store
J T Ure of Cedar Rapids and his workmen furnished and installed the rubber tile floor of the new electric company's store and the clay tile entrances to the building. The floor is described as a beauty with red and black tiles. Ure also handles marble terrazo rubber asphalt and clay tile work.
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J.T. Ure
Cedar Rapids
New Electric Company
Clover as a Stowaway Arrived in America with Red Clover Seed
Historical notes trace red clover to early America possibly arriving as seed aboard a Holland bound voyage around 1620. Records mention English grass in England by 1644 and thriving clover in New England by 1663. Various 17th century references describe clover fields and seed sales in New York and Boston.
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America
Bureau of Plant Industry
Holland
Low Countries
Richard Weston
Surrey
Flanders
England
New England
Long Island
Boston
New York
Electric power as a retail service of modern utility
Electric power is described as a uniquely retail service where customers obtain instant lighting, heating, and machine operation at the flip of a switch. The piece notes rising taxes on private electric utilities, claiming increases of over 800 percent since 1914 and 41 percent since 1931, with taxes consuming more than twenty cents of every dollar in 1935.
Utility taxes cover most federal department expenses
Utility taxes are sufficient to pay seven ninths of the federal departments' expenses across the legislative executive state treasury war justice post office interior agricultural commerce and labor, excluding emergency activities.
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Executive
State
Treasury
War
Justice
Post Office
Interior
Agricultural
Commerce and Labor
Vanderbilt Electric Party Sparks Early Modern Lighting
Fifty three years ago in 1882 Mrs. Vanderbilt hosted a dinner and ball at a New York mansion to showcase electric lights. John Pierpont Morgan on Madison Avenue installed 600 bulbs in his brownstone and entertained guests with a booming dynamo, later searching for proper lighting capacity as the system dimmed and more lamps were added. The piece contrasts 19th century electric displays with today’s widespread home lighting.
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Vanderbilt
New York
Mr. Edison
Madison Avenue
37Th Street
John Pierpont Morgan
Morgan
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Channes City
Eagle Grove
Missouri Valley
Red Oak
Sheldon
Waterloo
Belle Plaine
Cresco
Lovell
Coxsee
R. C. Stirton
Herman Tiarks
William Stuhler
Robert M. Hicks
R. P. Smith
Dexter
Iowa Electric
Electric Power
Vanderbilts
Social Register
Fifth Avenue
Monticello, Iowa
LeRoy Clark Sr
Monticelo, Iowa
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