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Secure in Chicago business and society despite the flight of his father and uncle, last week Samuel Insull Jr. bowed to his losses, rented the bottom floor of his 25th and 26th-floor duplex. By doing so he lost a kitchen, living room, dining room and several bedrooms. He still has room enough for a comfortable home for himself, his wife, and Samuel Insull...
...years Hoe was practically free from competition. In 1901 certain patent expirations opened the way for an invasion of the field. At present the stiffest competition comes from the Duplex Printing Press Co., Walter Scott & Co., the Goss Printing Press Co. and the Wood Newspaper Machinery Corp. headed by Henry Alexander Wise Wood, who was financed by James Gordon Bennett and others. High-speed color printing for newspapers is Mr. Wood's chief interest and in it he will recognize only one rival, the Claybourn Press (used by the Pittsburgh Press). Another big developer of color presses has been...
...rows of jerry-built Olde Englysshe cottages for families of modest means which speckle U. S. suburbs. Designed by A. Lawrence Kocher and Albert Frey, the Magic House has no excavated basement. The owner enters through the garage, climbs a staircase near the oil-burning furnace room to a duplex living room, dining room, library. The designers expect that the covered sun porch and outdoor living room will be the most popular feature of the house. They claim that the three-inch walls of aluminum and celotex are better insulated and more weatherproof than the eight-inch frame sidings...
...Budd a goodly number.) In general, the new models taper from rear to front. That gives roomy back seats. By widening rear axles, manufacturers have obviated the unsightly overhung bodies of past years. Very few open cars are now made. The closed bodies are slung very low. Triplex and Duplex safety glass appear in almost every expensive car and in the windshields of cheaper makes. Chromium, non-tarnishing metal, is used almost universally in lamp rims, hub caps, door handles, bumpers and other trimmings. Body colors are subdued, more blacks appearing than for several years...
...Harry Trotter, who had a good job as foreman in Pape's lumberyard, was determined everybody should understand he loved his wife. . . . Coming home from the yard at half past five o'clock Harry smelled a stew cooking as he climbed the stair of the duplex house, a dish he liked, and Vera cooked it with small round new potatoes, oodles of onions, peppers, spices...