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Sebastian Spering Kresge sells Odo-ro-no, oilcloth, paper, pins, ribbons, rods, soaps, suspenders, tacks, thread, ungents, union suits, valentines, vaseline, wire, xylophones, yarn, yardsticks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kresge Glasses | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

American Linseed, organized in 1898, has been the leading U. S. manufacturer of linseed oil and its derivatives. Out of flaxseed, which it gets in the U. S., Canada, Argentine, India, it makes the oil essential for the manufacture of paints, varnishes, printers' inks, linoleum, oilcloth (American cloth) and like products. By-products are linseed oil cake, oil meal, poultry feed, cattle feed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gold Dust & Best Foods | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...past two years seems to indicate that rain is as indispensable as the kick-off. People who have attended these community shower-baths will feel an appreciative sympathy to read the chronicle of the 1890 game, when it poured torrents and all the spectators had to take cover under oilcloth table cover and other impromptu ponchos...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON AND THE BLUE | 11/21/1925 | See Source »

...robust woman who sat bowed over an oilcloth-covered table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Mar. 16, 1925 | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

Scream after scream issued from a kitchen near Jericho, L. I. The door opened, a man entered, alarm written large upon his ordinarily phlegmatic countenance. The screams continued. He crossed the room quickly to the side of a robust woman who sat bowed over an oilcloth-covered table, screaming. He removed from her clutch a newspaper which seemed to be the cause of her extraordinary perturbation, spread it out so that the light of the kerosene lamp fell upon its crumpled front page. The woman fell silent to watch his face which, as he read, sharpened, paled with incredulous horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Prank | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

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