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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1912)
THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, (X.ToBEU 2;?. UHl All Together, All the Time, for Every thing Electrical. People's Eledrical Page Brilliant Illumination Makes a City Safer, Cleaner and Better. immmmm ,- watt M a z d a Lamp in placeofthe 16 candle power lamp you are now using. It will give you more and better light for less than half the cost. Try one. - ' - -'""""''-',:'!''V-Tiiriiiu'iiiiiiimiM-miii in in - Mi mmim TRYa40 watt Mazda lamp in placeofthe old 16 can dle power lamp you are now using. It will give you 3 times as much light for the same cost. Try one. Omaha Electric Light & Power Company Many Useful Gifts ' in Electrical Way Now Offered Here only a little while ago fltectrical gift ware was practically limited to toylanii. Germany started the nuking of electrical toys and America bought them. At pres ent, it is estimated that we spend not less that J30,(XW,O0f) per'year for playthings. It is only recently, however, that prac tical and convenient electrical devices for household use came to be Included In the category of electrical gift-ware. Tet, to day, they represent a class of gifts which in addition to all other virtues possesses that of up-to-dateness to an unequalled degree. Their great popularity is due not only to their compactness, neatness and attractive design, but also to the fact that they are of general benefit to .ill members of a family. The heating devices such as the lumin ous radiators are made of handsome polished nickel or of burnished copper, and are very ornamental as well as use ful. The electric flatlron is Just about the right sire and costs just enough to mRe it an ideal gift. This is also true in the ease of the disk stove, the coffee percolator, the toaster and in fact all the devices now available for this purpose. The radiant electric grill Is probably tho most magical of the electric cooking devises' carried in Santa Clans' pack. Unlike some of the other devices, it Is not of limited use. One can do several kinds of cooking with it, an.d any two kinds at the same time broiling and toasting, or boiling and frying, or broiling and stewing, or broiling while baking "riddle cakes. Keep a six, pound electric flatiron'; hot for fifteen minutes., - ' ILLUMINATED ICEBOX NEW HOME ATTRACTION Every user of an Ice box will be in terested In a refrigerator that not only embodies cold storage wisdom, but eleo trio illumination. In the new electric lighted Ice box an electric push button un the outside instantly Illuminates the interior of the box. This lias the ad vantage of lighting up dark corners and revealing at once the whereabouts of the butter, meat or other food.. While It was formerly necessary to Illuminate the entire kitchen or pantry in order to see Into the refrigerator, with this improved ice box it is only necessary to press a button and, behold, a good deal of lllusn- lnatlon just where it tj wanted. This frigerator is provided with an air flue at each end of the Ice chamber, afford ing a special system of circulation that prevents a pocket of foul air at top of provision chamber and gives a dry, cold atmosphere in every part of the storage eompartment. This system of sanitation provides a hot water flushing device In connection with a syphon floor trap. Elec tric lamps Inside the Ice box connected with the push button switch provides the much needed illumination. Popular Elec tricity. What a Penny Will Do. Raise 250 gallons of water 100 feot. Bring to a boil two quarts of water. Run the electric broiler for six minutes. Operate a twelve-inch flan fbr two hours. Operate an electric griddle for eight minutes. Operate a sewing machine motor for one- hour. Operate -a seven-Inch frying pan for twelve, minutes. Keep a four-inch disk stove hot for fifteen minutes. FACTS AND FUN. In Bombay, India, the new dwellings and offices are nearly all fitted with electric light and electric fans, and some also with electric lifts. Hardly less Im portant than lighting is the demand in the bungalows for electric fans. Where electria power is available there is in every room an electric fan attached to the ceiling, and generally there are also small portable lamps. There is also a large demand for electric machinery foj power plants. Not the least Important parfof this demand Is for the textile factories in Bombay, and it may be an ticipated that in a few years most, If not all, of the largest spinning and weaving mills at least will be run by electric power. ' N Mr. T. Thorne Walter, the electrical ex. pert connected with the Dally Mirror, London, who recently made some experi ments in raising chickens under the In fluence of electric current, now proposes to do the same thing with babies. "No kind of food seems to do weakly babies any good," says Jir. Haker. "As recently state in the Daily Mirror, I pro pose to use an electrically charged cot In which the Baby is put to sleep for about twenty minutes at a time. "The physician is at present experi menting on little animals, such as guinea pigs, and in a few days we shall begin with the babies." Mr. Baker's Intended experiment is to place babies near high frequency currents which would be switched on while the child sleeps in a little bed, placed Inside a special coil. 'The result, he said, "will be that while the treatment is in progress the electro-magnetic vibrations will pass back andforjh through their bodies." SAVING TIME. LABOR AND MONEY IN THE HOME The. high cost of living necessities greater economy In the home. Labor, light and fuel ate the three most expen sive thfligs in modern housekeeping and anything that will give better light for less money, save the coat of hired help and lessen tho monthly Mils for fuel, Is a friend in need. Illuminating engines have shown that the common oil lamp and the gas Jet are far more costly than electric llghtST The oil and gas lights destroy tho paint, smoke up the wall paper and not in frequently set fire to the house. Aside from tho matches used, the new chimneys,' lamps, gloves, wicks, the purchase of oil fuel and the care of the oil lamps, the Item of paper and paint makes these oil lamps by far the most exenslve. Elec tricity does not require even a match once it is Installed. It gives' off no dan gerous gases to run up needless doctor bills, does not harm the furniture and household furnishings, and saves all the time formerly spent In cleaning and fill ing the old oil lamps. The Illuminating engineers have made a practical study of their work and by the use of the right tints for paper and paint can Install elec tricity so it will give a perfect light for a very little cost. Kjjtoierly more than half the light was absorbed by dark wall paper and the smoky" ceilings. "How did your husband keep occupied during his vacation?" "Oh, he was chauffeur of an electric fan." Make a Welsh rarebit In an electric chafing dish. Keep the foot-warmer hot for a quarter of an hour. YOU are cor dially invit ed to attend a Fall exhibition of the newest and most distinctive de signs in Beautiful Electric Lamps Hertf you will find lanlps for every purpose -at prices generally lower than elsewhere There is no gift more appreciated than an Electric Lamp an J our showing of exquisite exclu sive designs is the largest in the -west Miller, Stewart & Beaton Co. 415-17 South Sixteenth St. BRONZE STATUAR We have just received direct from France a large consignment SfcT- of Bronze Figures for Electric t Liirht. These, figures are the best modeled and the host finishpd pvpr brought to Omaha. Work of this kind be longs to the jewelry class. Prices $12.50 to $50.00 For anything! high class in the lighting line see us. 4 mm mi , Burgess Granden Co. 1511 Howard St. Omaha Electrical Works Electric Elevator Repairs and Westinghouse Motors 108-18 N. 11th It. Fhons Bona. 1181. re: (r love Into a Wired House When looking for a house with all modern im provements,' see that it's wired for electric light, and let us-move you. Our service is just as clean as electric service, and we maintain a fireproof storage electric lighted, dirt-proof and damage proof. ' , We are swift and careful. Omaha Van & Storage Co. MAIN OFFICE 80ft S. Sixteenth St., Phone Dong. 4183. BRANCHES 300 South Seventeenth and 1120 Xorth Nineteenth Stet. Three times the Ligh for the Same Money. Mazda Lamps Stand the Bumps Wolfe Electric Co. 1810 Fumm St Iflcr 1414 " Wire for at and w 'U wire . for you." " Motor, Stmioos a&d Ctenaral B (pairing, Electrical KacMnary ud Armature , Winding- SPaolaltj. , ZLECTBXO XXiKVATOB BEVAXM Le Bron Electrical Works Zxptrt Electricians and Machinists Day, Don-. 176. 813 South lath St Electric Supplies Electric Wiring Bennett Electric Co. J01 Omaha National Bank Bids. GLEAN any rug or piece of up holstery as thoroughly as you can by the broom or brush method. Go ever it again with any other vacuum cleaner. You will get out more dirt this second time over than you can by the most thorough, old fash ioned methods. Finally go over it a third time with a Duntley Pneum a tic Cleaner, The results will surprise you. For the first time you will get the real dirt the old, ground-in, dangerous, germ-laden dirt that neither sweeping nor any other method ever gets. We want yon personally to make this test or see It made. We want you to see not only the results, but how quickly and easily they are obtained to know from experience how much more economical Duntley methods are. -Duntley Pneumatic Cleaner Universal MotorAlternating or Direct Current. TOM rnZHT AXTD TOM SALE BT MILLER, STEWART & BEATON 415.17 South Sixteenth St. I i JkUOTA 'A 17 M Getting Best Result from Your Electric Light Illumination One of the mom popular misconcep tions of good lighting is that which mis takes a largo blaze of light for guod illumination. A room may have un abundance of light and still be poorly lighted and again It may have a re latively small amount of light and hav very good illumination. Good Mumlmt tlon does not require so much that there be s great amount of light as It does that It be thrown where it Is needed. We must remember that objects me visible by moans of the light they reflect to our eyes and not because of the light that comes to us directly from the lamp. Thero are therefore two fundamental rules to follow when Installing a lighting unit. First, to throw the light upon the objects to be Illuminated; second, to pre vent the light of the lamp falling directly upon the eyo. Both of these results are brought about by tho use of suitable shades or reflectors. If one Is reading, for example, and a onre, ummnaea, eiectnc light Is sus pended, somewhere between the eye and the printed page, tho light coming from the lamp will be so much more intense than that which Is reflected from the page that the latter will appear Indistinct, to say nothing of the eye strain caused by the direct rays of the lamp. If, however, the light source Is shaded so that its direct rays do not fall upon the eyes of the reader, but are directed upon the reading matter, the reading will be made much easier and excessive eye strain eliminated.. "There Goes That Telephone Bell!" What happens when the tele phone rings in your office? Does someone shout across the office or down the hall that Jones or Smith or Brown is wanted? You don't get along with one electric light why with one telephone? Let us tell you about our Private Branch Exchange or our Extension Station service. It places another telephone where it is needed, and cuts out the confusion, lost time and useless steps, besides increasing your general efficiency. . NEBRASKA TELEPHONE COMPANY You can boost your business and the general electric business of Omaha by co-operating to make this Peoples' Electrical Page a true representative of the electric trade of this city. ' . 1F Those who do riot advertise remind one of the boastful young man who soon after .his arrival in one of the large cities of the east, met a Jew at whose race he sneered. 1F "I live in a- village m Ohio where there are no Jews," boastingly he informed the jew." F "Yes," said the Jew, with a taut face, "that's the rea son it's a village." If you have a small trade and don't advertise, that's the reason it's small you don't advertise. F Think it over! ' The Cost of Living and Electric Light One costs mm daily the other cottt less. In thsse days of soaring prices it Is a relief to find one "ne cessity" whoso cost Is decreas ing instead of increasing. For the past thirty years the cost of electric lighting has been steadily, growing less. A few years ago, ten cants' worth of current would Uglit a IS candle-power lamp for twenty hours. New. ten cents' . worth of currant will light a 1 32 candle-power lamp for 25 hours. rr DAILY- A quarter of a million Bell telephone calls are "MADE IN OMAHA" v 4-