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Instead of trying to improve on what they call "the world's best mousetrap," the Knesses are now concentrating on making a smaller model more suited for residential use. Brick's trap, retailing for $8.95, is too large and expensive for a householder with a minor mouse problem...
Last year the Kness Manufacturing Co. sold 400,000 traps and grossed about $1.5 million at a wholesale average of $3.75 a trap. It was the twelfth straight year that production has increased. While there are not enough zeroes in these figures to dazzle anyone on Wall Street, they are...
The Knesses, in fact, are still recovering from a recent attempt to improve the trap. In order to save money they contracted with a plastics company to pro duce a small butterfly-shaped part used to wind up the spring-powered paddle. The quality of the material varied, and some...
Dina L. Michels '83 and Beth A. Schwinn '83 started circulating the petition after Buildings and Grounds (B&G) poisoning efforts failed to eliminate the mice population completely. They added that they found the use of traps nauseating and partially unsuccessful.
Up in Manchester, N.H., in Ted Kennedy's headquarters, the campaign troops are hoping that somewhere out in all those hills, there are enough Elaine Madigans to keep Jimmy Carter from getting 50 per cent of tomorrow's vote. That's the stated goal of Ted Kennedy's New Hampshire...