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[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, October 19, 1922]
HAS NEW BOW STAY
John Hill, local blacksmith, has received numerous offers from manufacturers to use his
recently patented automobile or buggy top bow stay. The new stay is made of metal and is so
constructed that it protects the top material from wear on the rigid bow.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, January 3, 1923]
SECURES PATENTS ON FOLDING CAMP BED
Harley BARKMAN, who lives near Rochester, has just completed work on a new folding
cot or rather a full sized bed for use in lake cottages, on camping trips and in other places where
economy in space is desired combined with strength and general utility. The bed, which Barkman
has just patented, is an entirely new departure and the manufacturing and marketing possibilities
of his patent have already been commenced on by manufacturers, who are negotiating with Mr.
Barkman for the product. No definite arrangements towards this end have been accomplished as
yet, Mr. Barkman states, altho he expects to be able to make an announcement in the near future.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, February 19, 1923]
LOCAL MEN PERFECT NEW CHICKEN ROOSTS
Nathan and John O’Blenis have recently perfected and have received the patent for a selffumigating
chicken roost, which they have proved will greatly aid the producer in that it keeps
from the chickens not only lice, which are very detrimental and cause heavy losses, but also other
diseases that tend to decrease the profits in this particular business. A continuous pipe feed
constitutes the roosts in the patent of the O’Blenis brothers and the pipes that act as the roost
proper are split thru the center and supplied with a wick. A tank filled with an anticeptic solution
is used to feed the wicks, and the fumes from the fumigating solution keep the fowls completely
saturated while they are on the roost.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, March 19, 1923]
INVENTOR OF THE NEW LICENSE PLATE ACTIVE
F. J. Williams, the inventor of the “Permanent license place for automobiles” which is
constructed of heavy aluminum metal with the figures cut through, left on the Monday evening
train for Frankfort, Ky., in response to a telegram from the State Tax Commission, who have the
adoption of this plate under advisement and as the state legislature is now in session with a law
before it proposing a revision of the present Motor Vehicle Law, it seems a very opportune time
for its immediate adoption.
Mr. Williams may visit Nashville, Tenn., and Montgomery, Ala., before he returns, as
both of these states have been investigating the merits of this new idea plate and the
correspondence seems to favor its early adoption.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, February 26, 1924]
A NEW RADIO COIL
Frank Rector, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Rector, of Culver, has invented a new radio
coil and is gaining some fame in radio circles thereby. This is said to be one of the best on the
market and is being advertised in the city papers.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, March 14, 1924]
CONCRETE BRICK MAKING MACHINE SEEN HERE
IS INVENTION OF FRANK WILDER, FORMER LOCAL MAN