| | Patent #2,266,340
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| | by Jack Snyder
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Last month I slipped and bumped my head in the
shower stall. After regaining consciousness, Walter Mitty and I decided I'd
waited long enough to embark on another career. Heck, I'm already an
accomplished telephone man and beekeeper. We narrowed the field down to the
following promising categories: male nursing, journalism and javelin catching
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| | Foreign Insulators
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| | by Marilyn Albers
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SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED
In the February, 1984, issue of CROWN JEWELS magazine I showed a picture of a glass
insulator with Russian letters embossed on the skirt. The marking was not very
clear, but I challenged Don Fiene (Knoxville, Tennessee), who teaches the
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| | You Never Know
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| | by H. G. "Bea" Hyve
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The other day Mr. Hyve and I went
through our stock of insulators, separating the good ones from the junk. The
junk consisted of Hemingray 42's, Hemi 9's, Whitall Tatum #1's, and such. There
was a Chicago with the entire crown missing and mega-damage to the skirt. There
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| | Collecting Telegraph Company Paper
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| | by Ray Klingensmith
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Have you ever wondered what
happened to all the old documents, maps, periodicals, telegrams and other paper
items associated with the "telegraph age"? Well, some of that material
has survived thru the decades and is actively sought by serious collectors. With
the ever growing interest in "go withs" in the insulator hobby, some
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| | Letters to the Editor
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Dear Dora:
I started to collect insulators about 12
years ago and have heard many stories concerning their history. One that has
always intrigued me was the possibility that Wm. Randolph Hearst ordered the CD
206 Castle made for his use at San Simeon.
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| | First Telephone Company Owned Building Located at 130 South Market Street, San Jose
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The following picture and article are reprinted from the March-April 1983
issue of "The Information Desk" with permission of Telephone Museum,
San Francisco, California.
San Jose has played an important part in the story of
communications in the far west. In the early days of the Spanish ranchos, the
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| | Porcelain Insulator News
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| | by Elton Gish, NIA #41
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I agreed to be the new clearing
house for American Porcelain and Editor for this column because I wanted to see
more frequent informative columns and to hopefully improve the interest in
collecting porcelain insulators. I cannot do it alone! I need your help to
provide interesting and newsworthy articles that all of us can use to improve
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