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...proper belfries have bells, as well as bats, and some have chimes. Only the finest belfries have carillons. A carillon has at least 23 bells,* tuned to all the notes of the scale and operated by wires and cranks from a central "clavier" bristling with hefty levers and slat-like foot pedals. By punching with his clenched fists and scrabbling with his feet, a good carillonneur can play anything from roundelays to opera. Because a carillon concert takes a deal of punching and scrabbling, carillonneurs have to be husky. Because all carillons are different, and because very little music...
Were a bed slat yanked from under a napping Southern gentleman, he would be scarcely more annoyed than were Southern businessmen last week when Adair Realty & Trust Co. and Adair & Senter Co. (its construction subsidiary) went into bankruptcy in them?have been the warp of Atlanta's community fabric. George Atlanta...
Nobody thought to nail a slat on the corncrib...
...like to suggest an improvement in the new drying rooms at the gymnasium. Under the present conditions one comes up dripping from the bath and while he dries himself has to stand round on the cold asphalt pavement, often in puddles of water left by other fellows. Now a slat floor laid on joists over the concrete and made in sections so as to be easily taken up would be far more comfortable to the feet, and would shed all waste water. How the thousand or more bathers would appreciate such an inexpensive improvement...