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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1913)
6 THE PEOPLE'S WEEKLY PAGE OF ELECTRICAL NEWS Published Each Tuesday THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1913, 11 1 I fefeil I II I ' V T 1 81 nnm Des TSiis Branch Exchange Telephone Service for You Permits instant .communication to. all parta of the store, stiop or ''factory. "; Saves time and useless floors and departments. steps in reaching A private branch exchange may be just 'what' you need to stop the leaks and speed up your business. , : " ' EBRASKA TELEPHONE COMPANY ES. 1 n a J ) ii 1 i"Vi I I - F I II NgtcCr II Molke-Pat. phwat la diplomacy! , , I Ej mjP' in pttt-Dlplomacy la when yea wants to I i i 414 NT II cal1 m Ilar but do It ovtr the. tele- L-m 1 " WHY BAKERSBREAD LEADS Easily Washed Machinery Makes it Very Popular. LATEST MACHINES IN USE HERE HHtrr Ilrcod linked nnil Greater Number of Consumer Ilcached ThrattRh Use of Modern Machinery. . Statistics complied not long ago in Jackson. Mich., showed that a Very large per cent of the housowlvos 'preferred to bake their own, bread necause of Very old fahloned notions about the "Tnakln of bakers' bread. Seventy-five tfer" cent of them had no Idea that they had mat chines to do theNnixlng and many and varied were th theories advanced as to hew It wall really mixed. ' Any housewife, who today steps Into an up-to-date bakery and sees the pro cess of mixing bread (and anything else which undergoes a mixing proceie) Wlli have her fears ot uncleanness In this respect banished (as almost everyone al ready has). , ' Almost every baker takes his delight' In his electricity driven mixer and beater The latest 'machines 'for bakes'hops allow :or a great many operations performed simply by n turn of a switch. The easily cleaned Utensils used In connection with all the dltfercn operations make It doubly attractive. The Illustration shows' orie style ot mixer and beater and the manner of acting upon different substances. The shelf, upon which rests the bowl con taining the dough or eggs to' bo mixed or beaten May be raised or- lowered to the paddles 'by turning a handle.. The turn of a switch otartS'thc "motor which does tho work. This machine Is easily disconnected so that every 'part may be thoroughly cleaned. V , Electrical Mriullnsc of Tire. An clcctrlcally-heated vulcantter for either the Inner tube or the casing of automobile or motorcycle tires has . re cently been developed. The vulcanlxer Consists of an electrically-heated vulcan izing clamp for holding the tire In posi tion and a small rheostat for .regulating the amount of current. Tire repairs cart be made In the minimum of time and' with very little expense. The work, ,can ' b4 done by anyone and there Is no danger of Injuring tho tire. Change System to Have All Parts of City Well Lighted About three years ago the City of Red wood. Cal., began ah experiment In street lighting which has resulted In an entlr change of .the lighting system. Upon the' request of the president 01 tho board of trustees the city replaced a KJO-watt with five 100-watt Matda lamps. lJy plaetng these lamps at regular Inter vals they were able to Illuminate tot-a distance Of SQO to 1.300 feet on a streot with tho some amount pf current they had formerly used for Illumination at, a slnglo crossing. "Everything considered," says the president, ot the board of service, "such as effectiveness, softness ot .light, etc our experiment Indicates -that one 100 watt Mazda lamp Is about as good aa a J0)-watt arc" . , LIGHTING DINING TABLE ' WITH SEASON'S FLOWERS t Hello i Thin Is Time. Hello! We are the greatest telephone users In the world. The dally average' of talks over the telephone last year was over 28,000,000. There ore 70,000 places, towns, cities, and hamlets from Tjhlch telephone messages may be sent, Thta Is 8,009 more than the number, .of. .ur railroad stations and three times Uo number of telegraph offices In tho country. There are nearly 7,'6i50,O00 . telo- Phone station In. the Bell system nn In crease last year ot ovor 800,000. The question of lighting the dinner table Is one of paramount Interest, the floral decorations and sen-Ice usid com ing second. The proper tone Tor the complexions and gowns contribute largely to tho auccers ot modern rtlmur giving. Deadly enemies may need tho huge olfi-fashloned centerpiece o hide them from ach other,, but friends must see each other to be happy. A monochrome' scheme is the only le cessful one, so the colors of ihe land! hniM mint match the'flowcri. Lnrge candles on candelabra aro only used when at least a doseh guefits nre expected. They, Or anything clue whleh crowds and dominates are out of nlase In a' small table. A charming piece for tabl lights is a sniall cluster of flowers In delicately toned glftfS, the cup to each flower con cealing a tiny bulb, the elect! le wlrn or which connects with a tlriy atorago but ters Inside the pedestal. The mechanism can be eonc;alel lv flowers and ferns. There r6 mtn beau tiful floral pieces and tt'lntfa t flowers which Uo most gracefully on tho cloth. -Kxpenslve pieces In favMltJ glass are exquisite and easily conn"ted In our modern electric lighted t'lnng rooint. Roses, bunches of 'lilies, sop.shslls and mermaids, malden-halr fern . with tulijs and popples, aro clever pieces - In glass and bronzet The softened light for the dinner tabl Is used In hotels and publlo restaurants as well as In thoprlvato home, and the "haded electric lighted device Is, of 'course, the softest, as well as the most beoutlfu table decoration used. Simple lights and beautiful flowers make any menu card a promise ot satis faction when ' we dine. , Wltrput tho lights ' and flowers " the yase exparice ot a publlo dining room It certainly unap petising and forlori. OMAHA IN mm PICTURES Eleotrio Device Used to Great Ad vantage by Local Merchants. PRETTY ROMANCE IN CLEAR FILM Two YonnR People, Meeting, I.lke One Another' nt VOnce, tnil Wed Within Few Honrs ntid Go West. Moving pictures ns supplemental me dium to newspaper advertising are be ing used In Omaha during the present month In a reel entitled "A, Twentieth Century Courtship." At present the "mov ies' aro being exhibited as a l,JO0-focn reel at the dayety theater, where they are. drawing large crowds, the reason be ing, ot course, that' they aro local films, made of local persons and local scenes and stores. The stOry of the film play deals with a '.yoUng Omaha business man who goes to Iho ball game, whero he meets a young Otjiaha society woman, The two become acquainted during tho progress of a game between Olnnha and tho Denver cham pldns. The young man, after wildly cheering tor the home team, sits Upon his straw hat and crushes It. This Is the beginning ot tho acquaintanceship, which ends in marriage within, a fow hours. The young man makes an appointment with the young woman for tho same cvenlntf. Uo takes her to a theater, and then "i.ees" heV home'. The next morn ing they meet again, by appointment. Before tho meeting the young man has purchused an engagement ring. Whllo they are eating a late breakfast nt one or umanas popular hotels, the young man proposes, and Is accepted. Tho two agree to wed that afternoon and to go west on a famous train for their honey moon. But before they wed they must ahop, so they visit various stores ot Omaha, buying articles for the trip and j - ft' ' 1 a MEmCAN 'PHONE SERVICE . EXCELS THAT OF ALL OTHERS qulpmcnt for their nw home, . which they also lease beforo going. Tho lcadfng firms of Omaha In the various tines of business are shown In tho film. The plo- tures are clear and are Interesting to Omahans because hundreds of local peo ple have been caught by the moving pic ture camera. The merchants declare the plan an excellent orie.' ' Icn Slelt on Way Upstairs. The "ten a da cent churick" of Ice, which "no lasta do trip up" from the basement to the fifth floor of h New York apartment house, caused trouble tor tho iMui'oier oi me autno waiter, to say nothing of the sorrow of tho person pay ing the bill tor the small puddle of water. Those people who depend upon natural ico for their summer supply will be obliged to pay tor puddles In consequence of a warm winter.. It Is a happy family who have electrical refrigeration' at their command. Down where Nature cannot send her cooling breezes Science sends the Electric Fan On comparing American telephone ser vice with that of other countries. thi quMt'on arises, "Why do people complain t'P'n having to wait a few second now and then for tol phone connectlotin?" A system of tets carried out a short time ago show that the Paris system Is ot least seven and a halt tlmos slower than the American. Tho average time requred to get Into communication In New York Is eleven recrtpdi". Vi'hlle th French capital Itf con t' nt tb wait one rrlnite, twenty.! d rljht tenth seconds. There Is alto a considerable difference In tho number of telephone Instruments' :tn use In the various countries. The United 8tntes comes a very Jong first with Its 7.C00.OM Instruments. Next cmfa Germany with more than 1.000,000, followed by Great Britain with 650.000. I Canada with -300,000 and France with J3fc- VZ. Then come Sweden, Russia, Austra Hungary. Denmark, Switzerland Italy, Holland, Norway and Belgium, the last nairied counting only 80,000 telephones. If we regard the number of Instrumtnls per, thousand ot the population we ob tain a quite different order. America again leads the way with eighty-one per thousand, more than double that of the next comer. Canada, which possesses thirty-seven. Then follow Denmark, with thirty-five; Sweden, thirty-four; Norway, twenty-six ; Switzerland, twenty-one; Germany, sixteen? Qrcat Britain, four teen; Holland, eleven; and Franpe and Belgium together with only six tubsclbers per 1,000. rent collecting by electrical machines Is the latest method to be .carried out In Germany, The whole machine Is mounted to run upon a broad and heavy beam laid down on the ground of the peat bog, and an electric motor drives It. The house wired for electricity is the that gives the tenant entire satisfaction If your house does not have elec tricity let us move you at bhceinto one that does. We give complete satisfaction in our moving, and dis patch work with care to eyefy ar ticle and without damage to. the most fragile piece of furniture. Moving, Storing and Packing Modern Equipment . . Storm your good ufith u thia umiir'in Fireproof, Ratproof arid Dirtproof1 Vnultu' Th Butt Storage in th Wtt. Omihi Yin & Storage toipiiy Down in the caserns of steel and stone where armies of office workers are meeting the strenuous problems of a busi ness day where excessive heat tends to retard the produc tive power of human energy-r-there electrical science carries the refreshing help Nature finds it so difficult to give. ; The ELECTRIC FAN is one of Electricity's most ef fective means of. increasing man-power by increasing man cpmfort of raisings the, standard marked by that magic word Efficiency. In the home, as in the office and factory, the Electric Fan is efficiency's "first aid" summer comfort's best a'ssurance. - And it gives both with a truly modern economy is readily attached to any. lamp socket gives a lifetime of satisfactory service at a very small cost. v With the current you save by using Mazda Lamps you, can rim your FAN or any of the many electric jdeyices for increasing the comfort of the hprne. With the ELECTRIC FLATIRON, for example, you can do the family ironing, indoors or our, in less timq. with less labor, and less physical digcomfort than ever was possible with the old-fashioned stove-heated irons, Any electrical dealer will gladly how you the various styles and sizes of Fans, Flatirons and Mazda Lamps. Omaha Electric Light tfsl Power Co. r Vrnns ii'V Tin mors. The brtlUancy of .Venus In .the1 eyenlng sky 'during the' early month's of this year has led to the usual crop of wild rumors ay to what the "strange light' could be. In England It has been mis taken for a German military airship; while tho newspapers ' ot southwestern Bust I a have been reporting nightly vUlts from an Austria py In an areoplane. It may be recalled that, many years ago, a section ot the New York public took the same planet to he an Illuminated balloon sent up by Mr, Edison from Menlo park In the course ot some mys terious experiments. THE ELECTRIC SHOP .For everything dlectric Fails, Washing Machines, Stoves, Chafing Dishes, Vacuum Gleaners, Toasters, Wiring, Lamps, Fixtures. j Right Goods at Right Prices WOLFE ELECTRIC CO. 1810 FARNAM STREET. TYLER 1414 INSTEAD of bowing to your old . habit, get into line with the progressive merchants and advertise those electrical articles which you have for sale. You cannot grow without advertising you 'cannot even live to healthy old business age. Study the reason for the success of the biggest merchants you.' II find l'it is advertising that has MADE THEM, " V Mnsdn I."tiini Improved., The wonderful Improvement In the man ufacture of Mazda lamps can be appre ciated when It Is realised that these Umps are now not only available, but are the cheapest lamps to use for the Illumination ot street cars, as shown by tens. . There are traction line in this country using .carbon llament lamps 'where the cost tor lighting has been greater than the cost of power to run the cars. Omaha Eleclrical .Works Electric Elevator Repairs Westinghouse, Motors los-ia v. nth at. rnoae soar. not. BENNETT ELECTRIC CO Tom SAFE AND KELIABLH WiniNCJ it PAYS to PLEASE Ml Ovtaiut Bank niig. S 3S1C Mod Electric Machinery Is Used To Mak TIP TOP BREAD It's clean, wholesome and pure. Eaten by the best fellies, everywhere. V TRADEMARK REO. u.s. patent or nee ASK YOUR GROCER FOR TIP TOP U. P. STEAM BAKING CO. it