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Married. Jane Lee, daughter of new President Thomas George Lee of Armour & Co. (meat packing); and William Edward Graham, son of famed Architect Ernest Robert Graham (Flatiron Bldg., New York; New Civic Opera House, Chicago); in Chicago...
...mufflers since 1913 when her ears were first assailed by an unmuzzled Ford in a Moline garage. Her idea for the airplane muffler she gleaned from contemplation of a grease-vapor exhaler set into the wall above a restaurant stove. Another of her products is a 2-lb. electric flatiron. Fiftyish, Miss Jones believes in the ability of women over 40, substitutes them for men at workbenches in her machine shops whenever possible...
...would be threefold -a Wanderjahre period, a period of building construction in Sweden, and the present match period. The Wander-years (they numbered seven) included the U. S., Mexico, England, South Africa, India, Canada, were spent chiefly in the erection of tall buildings. Such famed Manhattan structures as the Flatiron Building, the Metropolitan
...stories, but the mart will contain 4,000,000 sq. ft. (about 92 acres) of floor space. The architects are Graham, Anderson Probst & White. The name of Builder-Architect Ernest Robert Graham assures distinction-distinction dating back to the magnificent Chicago World's Fair, through the unprecedented Flatiron Building in Manhattan, to railroad stations, museums and skyscrapers in Washington, Chicago, Manhattan, Cleveland, London...
...machine itself is decidedly unimpressive in general appearance. A wooden box scarcely the size of the smallest of radio receiving sets, contains everything save the three dry cells required for running the voice transmission machinery. Like any phonograph or mechanical flatiron the device can be wired to an ordinary electric light circuit. It resembles a typewriter when one raises the cover. For the recording wire, nearly two miles in length, is coiled upon two revolving wheels, like the more conventional typewriter ribbon spools. When the machinery is operating, the wire is carried through a tiny box, passing a magnetizing device...