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[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, September 7, 1937]
[Adv] Electric Lights, Power Combined with Modern Surge Milker - - - MYERS
ENGINEERING CO., Rochester, Indiana.
[The News-Sentinel, Saturday, October 2, 1937]
NEW CORN DRYING PLANT DESIGNED BY MITCHELL
A newly designed seed corn-drying plant recently constructed at the Colonial Hotel
grounds, under the supervision of E. L. Mitchell, of this city, is attracting state-wide attention, so
efficiently does the new apparatus prepare the seed corn for immediate marketing.
The drying mechanism which has a capacity of approximately 300 bushels of corn has
been in operation for the past few weeks and will continue in operation for several days to come,
Mr. Mitchell stated today. The dryer is being used on the Hybrid corn which was raised on the
Mitchell and Bradley farms in and near Fulton county.
Heat from a large oversized, hot-air type furnace is forced by electric blowers through the
various compartments and drying trays which are arranged in a series of tiers for a distance of
approximately 30 feet, the height of the dryer cabinet being approximately 10 feet and the width
12 feet. The complete drying process requires from three to four days depending on the condition
of the corn, it was stated.
While the new dryer is now in operation for the sole purpose of preparing Hybrid seed
corn, Mr. Mitchell also plans to use it for the speedy curing of ordinary field corn for feeding
purposes.
Several representatives from Purdue University agriculture department as well as county
agents from various sections of the state have recently inspected the newly designed dryer and
have pronounced it a most decided improvement over the old methods of drying corn. Corn
growers or others interested in the drying of corn are invited to inspect this new system, which is
in operation day and night.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, November 11, 1937]
J. M. KELLER INVENTS CERTIFICATE HOLDER
John M. Keller, the well known Lake Manitou fishing bait manufacturer, pottery maker
and inventor, today announced that he is applying for a patent on an auto license certificate holder
which does away with taping the certificate to the windshield of the auto or truck.
The new device, which is in the form of a wire spring, can be attached to any car in less
than 3 minutes, does not mar or distract from the neatness of the car and shows nothing on the
outside of the car but the certificate, while on the inside just a small strand of wire is visible inside
the border edge of the certificate. The device, which is indestructible, may be used year after year
and its original cost would be of a trivial nature, Mr. Keller stated.
A few years ago the Lake Manitou resident invented a chicken beheader and bleeder
which proved most popular with hotel and restaurant owners throughout the state.
[The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, January 5, 1938]
KENNETH MEREDITH, AKRON, INVENTS TUBELESS RADIO
Kenneth L. Meredith, aged 38, Akron, has received a notice from the United States
Bureau of Patents in Washington that his application for a patent on a tubeless radio had been
granted by the bureau. The patent is expected to revolutionize the radio industry.
Mr. Meredith received a letter from the patent bureau in which it was stated that
engineers there had tested the radio and that it worked successfully and was the only radio of that
nature which had ever been submitted to them which was successful.
Mr. Meredith is a graduate of the Akron high school and the Chicago Engineering
School, Chicago, Ill. Meredith’s former instructors aided him with his invention.