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...grain merchant named Adam Thompson caused the first tub to be constructed of sheet lead and Nicaragua mahogany back in 1842, how he built a pump with which a team of six Negroes lifted water into a tank in his house, how he ran a heating pipe through his chimney, and finally took the first modern bath...
About the House. In Cincinnati, Mrs. Margrutte Hall sued her husband for $6,000 damages, charging that she would have had a "desirably situated" apartment, if he had not 1) removed a door, 2) taken down the chimney so the soot blew back in, 3) made a twelve-foot opening in the basement wall which froze the pipes and deprived her of running water...
Love's Labor Lost. In Izmir, Turkey, when Salih Ozcan decided to play Don Juan to a neighbor's wife, he waited until the husband had left home, got hopelessly stuck trying to enter the house by way of the chimney, was rescued by neighboring farmers who pulled down the chimney to get him out, received a severe beating, six months in jail, and the bill for a new chimney...
...roof of Enamelstrip Corp. in Allentown, Pa. last week clambered Lehigh County Judge John H. Diefenderfer. There he sniffed suspiciously at the company's chimney. For months, nearby residents had been after an injunction against Enamelstrip as a public nuisance for the stench given off by its ovens (which bake enamel on to metal at 500° Fahrenheit). Judge Diefenderfer, after several judicious sniffs, said: "I can't smell a thing...
...Manager Arthur E. Uhleen, are almost too good to believe. The original purpose, to eliminate odors and other pollution, proved to be merely incidental to a big increase in the whole plant's efficiency. Not only odors but energy in the form of heat was going out the chimney. Houdry's catalytic units are capturing and saving it, so that Enamelstrip's gas bill has been...