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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: jimwrench on September 22, 2017, 11:46:52 AM
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Saw this at auction and acquired to donate to small museum in Kenney Il. Not as old as I had hoped since single digit phone number fooled me. Funeral Chapel existed in 1945 to 1952. Evidently sold appliances bewteen funerals. Haven't been around cause I got married one month ago (new adventure for a 84 year old but its great)
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back side
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Congratulations to you and your blushing bride!
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Neat! Congrats to you and best wishes to your spouse!
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Around here it was Furniture in front , funerals in back.
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Congratulations to you and the new bride,wishing you all the best.
I have a bunch of yardsticks but none have a single digit, that's a great find.
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congratulations to you and the Mrs.
I have never come across a yard stick with single phone digit.
in grammar school, every teacher had a yard stick and they never used it to measure anything, but --------------------------
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Congratulations and best wishes for you and your bride!
Chilly
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Congratulations Jim, are you going to Indy to the MVWC meet and auction?
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Well! well! well! Congratulations to you and your new bride.
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Lew, have reservations for fall MVWC meet. That being said I have a reoccurence of a pituitary tumor and am going to try to schedule operation to remove it around wrench show.
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Good luck with the health issues.
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best wishes to all on the marriage and the health issues. no sense mixing those up with a nice rule! :smiley:
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I had never really looked at old yardsticks until I read this post. I cant top the single digit phone number, but I did find a double digit and it is advert for John Deere, De Laval, Fairbanks Morse...etc. It would have followed me home just for the advertising alone.
I call it a yardstick due to its length, but it (and another one I found) are not shaped like I think of when you say yardstick. They are a square cross section that tapers from about 3/4" on one end down to 1/2" at the other. Any idea what that shape is for? They look like a walking stick, but would be pretty light for that.
Ideas?
Jim
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Tank depth measurement, perhaps?
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A lot of farm equipment & agricultural supply companies used the "square" yardsticks / walking stick for advertising. Some I know of used the extra sides for added advertising. New Idea farm equipment on 1 side, Allis Chalmers on 1 side, the dealer's info on the 3rd, & the yardstick on the 4th. They are also more durable than the flat ones.
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Best wishes on the health issue and many happy anniversaries to you and you Mrs. :smiley:
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some moons ago, I had seen a few farmers herding their cows to the barn with both square and tapered ends on the yard sticks, they
walked with them like they were using a cane and tapped the cows with them to steer them in the right direction.
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some moons ago, I had seen a few farmers herding their cows to the barn with both square and tapered ends, they
walked with them like they were using a cane and tapped the cows withthem to steer them in the right direction.
I'm confused - did the barns have square and tapered ends? The cows? The farmers?
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Antecedent problem!!!!
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Antecedent problem!!!!
Your English teachers would be proud. I bet you can diagram sentences, too.
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I can diagram, but don't.
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Hello, Bill. Thanks, but my English teachers would never believe it. And you lost me on diagram!!!! Regards, Lou
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Hello, Bill. Thanks, but my English teachers would never believe it. And you lost me on diagram!!!! Regards, Lou
https://www.wikihow.com/Diagram-Sentences (https://www.wikihow.com/Diagram-Sentences)
It's rather out of fashion now, and never was entirely accurate, in that English uses language in ways not contemplated in this rather mechanical model; but diagramming has some value in helping to understand the basic construction of a sentence.
I had a boss - with a doctorate, of all things! - who would have benefited from a little more time on that in her high school years.