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Title: Popular electricity magazine in plain English
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Electricity
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Popular Electricity Pub. Co.
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ives were taught that the wire wassacred, but at fitful intervals the tele-graph wire is stillreported down. Arepair gang is sentout to make goodthe break, and theyfind the nativeshave stolen severalhundred yards ofgood wire. Thenthe telegraph in-spector curses thenatives in no mildterms. But as longas the Africans lovewire above allthings, and a benefi-cent governmentwill operate tele-graph lines through1heir country, justso long will theysteal the wire. Punishment hasno effect upon them.The native policeare in sympathy with the thieves. Grad-ually the government has learned to shrugits shoulders, replace the loss, and saywith the natives—Kismet, it is fate. POPULAR ELECTRICITY MAGAZINE Artistic Electroliers for a Park In parks where a rustic style oflandscape gardening- prevails, a lightingstandard in keeping with the generaleffect is essential, although this point is pends and engineersare beginning to payfar more attentionthan they formerlydid to the details thatmake for beautv.
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ENTRANCE TO GANESHA PARK, POMONA, CALIFORNIA too often overlooked. It is obvious thata cast iron lamp post of ornate designis quite out of harmony in such sur-roundings. A good example of correctusage is found in the park in Pomona,Calif., where the cobblestone-and-ce-ment construction of the lighting stand-ards at the entrance harmonizes per-fectly with the rustic bridge which theyflank. Each is surmounted by a wroughtiron, four light electrolier. In another portion of the same park,the arrangement is more formal, andhere the electroliers are of a differenttype, also in harmony with their sur-roundings. In this case a simple con-crete shaft of clean-cut, graceful linesrises from a square base and is sur-mounted by a glass shade above a singleincandescent bulb. A curved metalbracket suspends the light directly abovethe center of the shaft. Although it may seem a mailer ofslight consequence, it is upon just suchsmall matters that the artistic effect de- Cured a Toothache I couldnt have

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