| Advertising Through the Ages
| | by Robert Stahr
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Teats on the Petticoat
This month I am devoting the column to the Hemingray Glass Company and their
historic patent of May 2, 1893. All of the advertising extols Hemingray's claim
to fame -- "teats on the petticoat."
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| | Patent Office
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RALPH G. HEMINGRAY, OF COVINGTON, KENTUCKY, AND JAMES C. GILL, OF MUNCIE,
INDIANA.
INSULATOR FOR TELEGRAPH-WIRES.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 496,652, dated May 2 1893.
Application filed January 3,1893. Serial No. 457,057. (No model)
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| | Patent No. 496,652
| | by N. R. Woodward
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Of all the patents relating to insulators, probably the best known is No.
496,652 covering the addition of drip points to the base rim. This month is the
one hundredth anniversary of that patent, issued to Ralph G. Hemingray and James
C. Gill. Literally millions of Hemingray insulators were made with the embossing
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| | Porcelain Insulator News
| | by Elton Gish
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This month we will devote this space to multipart porcelain insulators. This
continues to be an ever growing part of our hobby, even though some have thought
in the past that these "boat anchors" would never "fly" with
collectors. Those of us that are devoted multi collectors manage to find room
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