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...Purchasing Department at Harvard is a voluntary service offered to the departments of the University, and not a compulsory one. It is here for use, if it is found useful. It will buy a broom or a chemical, or a thousand brooms, but only when it is asked to do so. It will supply information, if asked, as to the best broom, or the cheapest broom, or the broom that is the best value for the money. Or it will buy a particular, specified broom it will buy a specified broom from a specified firm. If not otherwise instructed...
...because a Bissell sweeper with its large brush is particularly efficient on any kind of miscellaneous litter, because of its extreme lightness and handiness to use, because it is ready the instant you pick it up and costs little. In others words, it is simply a ball bearing bristle broom-on-wheels with its own long handled dust pans...
...sagacious. He it is who is credited with feeding a Boston girl and making her sleep, eat, exercise until the doctors at Tufts College knew just how much work she could do with a definite, measured amount of energy. Then he had her set to cleaning carpets with a broom, a carpet sweeper, a standard vacuum cleaner and a Hoover (combined carpet sweeper and vacuum cleaner). Tufts tests showed that the Hoover demanded least energy...
Cleaning carpets by suction machinery is scarcely 20 years old. Before 1907 the housewife dragged a broom across the carpet nap or, when she could afford it, she bought a carpet sweeper. Bissel was the most popular make of sweeper. It had (and still has) a revolving brush that picked up lint, bread crumbs, hairpins, cigaret butts, needles, roaches, broom, straws, candy, germs. The matted filth made a capital nest for mice. But broom or sweeper cleaned only the surface of the carpet. To get the deeply imbedded dirt the careful housewife had to lift her carpets each spring, hang...
...This is not my writing, so you needn't try to trace me.' The police had failed to find the kidnapers of our two-year-old daughter, so we answered the letter, were soon informed by a telegram to look for a Negro boy with a broom handle on a certain street corner. I looked and found a pickaninny at the proper time and place. 'Where's your broom han dle?' asked I. He picked up one from behind a fence. I gave him exactly $3,333.33. Half an hour later, a minister...