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Steelmaster Andrew Carnegie built the Georgian mansion in 1900 for $1,000,000, and later put up a 29-room house next door for his daughter. In the old days it took 25 to 30 servants to staff the mansion. They worked in a big kitchen that was white-tiled...
The son of an impoverished tenant farmer, he put himself through Illinois Wesleyan by stoking furnaces and waiting on table, emerged in 1914 with a law degree and letters in football, baseball and basketball. After World War I, in which he rose from private to lieutenant, he went back to...
"Right now there is an annual deficit of twelve million tons of coke in Western Europe. [But] we have been able to wipe out this deficit by simple cooperation. . . . We have recommended that henceforth no more coke shall be used for heating houses or stoking factory boilers. All available European...
Back in 1897, Miss Lizzie had made $30 a month, with an extra $5 for stoking the stove in wintertime ("I thought I was a millionaire then"). Now Miss Lizzie was earning $1,900 a year. Said she happily: "If I had it to do all over again, I'...
Already tested, this stove is a box three feet high and two feet square, capable of heating a four-or five-room house (if the circulation of heat takes care of itself). Using new types of air jets and flues, it burns soft coal, eats its own smoke, runs three...