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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1908
Page
3
A note on applying natural Jap-a-lac over linoleum or oil cloth to extend life by preserving the original varnish. Rejuvenate weather worn front doors with Jap-a-lac and let new appearance follow. Use a color close to the old finish for best results.
The article advises applying Jap-a-lap each spring to window and door screens. Use Brilliant Black on the wire cloth and Mahogany Oak Cherry or Walnut on the frames to renew life and protect the wire cloth from rust.
The article promotes protecting and beautifying Porcih furniture each spring with Jap a lac finish. It suggests using the color of the old finish and offers red or green Jap a lac as options for a color change.
Local refinisher reports wicker furniture coated in mahogany oxblood red malachite green or gloss white jap lac looks nearly new after restoration.
An advertisement touts Jap-a-lac for preserving and beautifying faucets radiators furnaces and iron fences with color options including Gold Aluminum Dead Black and Briilian lack offering lasting protection and shine.
The article notes frames, candelabra, gas fixtures, lamps and similar items given a coat of Gold, Aluminum or Dead Black Jép-a-lac. The Dead Black finish draws a wrought-iron look and is renewed almost beyond relief.
An advertisement touts rejuvenation of old autos carriages wagons and farming implements with Japanese lacquer in Brilliant Black Red Green or Empire Blue. The refurbishing allegedly costs little and requires no experienced workers.
JAPA-LAC is a household necessity adaptable for many applications from cellar to garret especially suitable for finishing old or new floors and woodwork. Ask your paint dealer.
The Western Maryland Railroad, part of the Gould line, was placed under receiver by Judge Morris after Bowling Green Trust Company filed for control. President B F Bush outlined financial pressures from maturing loans and the commodity clause, urging court oversight to protect coal revenues and avoid drastic actions.
Laporte Indiana March 5 The Laporte County Circuit Court sustained a motion to vacate the order naming George F Mull of Indianapolis as receiver for the Chicago New York Electric Air Line Road Cooperative Construction Company and Goshen Chicago and South Bend Railway Company The receivership lasted only twenty four hours and may be reopened if fraud insolvency or mismanagement are proven at final hearing
Yesterday's court session in the AG’s suit to annul the New York City Railway charter revealed a deficit of 6.9 million on June 30, 1906 and no provision for about 7 million in franchise taxes still in litigation. Limburg showed 1,000 damage suits pending, large past deficits, and questioned intercompany liabilities with Metropolitan Securities Company.
Postmaster GeneralGeorge Von Ih Meyer spoke at the New York State Association of Postmasters annual dinner at the Hotel Astor. He endorsed a parcels post and postal savings bank and described plans for a new terminal at a Pennsylvania Railroad station and a Grand Central mailing station to ease congestion. He noted Cortlandt Street quarters to house mailing divisions and urged Congress to pass the parcels post and banking scheme modeled on Canada. Local postmasters James Callahan and Uncle Billy Parsons attended, with George H. Roberts presiding as toastmaster.
The Virginia Senate concurred with the House bill to execute all death sentences at the state penitentiary in Richmond, abolishing hanging in the Commonwealth. The action moves toward replacing public execution with a centralized electric chair method.
The Stude baker car carrying a message from Gen. Fred Grant to the Fort Leavenworth commandant for The New York Evening Journal spent last night stuck five miles south of Atchison. It remained stalled until noon, with rain hindering progress. after seventeen days on the road from New York, it faced little chance of reaching Fort Leavenworth until rain stopped.
A quirky piece links early motor car ideas to cooking progress. It describes a Cedar Rapids scene where mechanized cereal processing uses explosions to convert hard rice and oats into a puffed food, a misguided mix of motors and meals, with warnings about overreaching cooks learning from engines.
The Motobloc driven by Baron Godard is scheduled to leave Chicago at 8:30 tomorrow morning for the New York to Paris race. A. J. Banta of the Chicago Automobile Club will escort the French team to De Kalb, Illinois. Godard reports his crew is prepared, seeks continued power to San Francisco, plans to cross the continent, then sail to Valdez Alaska, and he discussed robbery of Motobloc equipment with the French Consul General at Neuilly.
The German car Protos faces a crew reorganization for the New York to Paris run. Hans Knape and Ernest Maas depart for Germany while Lieut Koeppen remains in charge with available helpers. Maas cites Berlin business interests. Knape plans to develop a detachable snowplow powered by exhaust gases. Koeppen will guide the car to Paris as the others depart. Fred J. Swentzel of Brooklyn appears as a prospective negotiating ally with broad world touring experience.
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