PLAN No. 376. BAKER—INDIAN SERVICE U. S. SEE [PLAN No. 217]
PLAN No. 377. A CEMENT STICK THAT STICKS
A Virginia man found that by investing 85 cents in the materials required for making cement sticks he could get back $25, when sold at retail. This is the way he makes it.
Common glue, and from 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 as much cheap sugar; melt them together in a glue pot, then pour in pans 1⁄4 an inch deep. As it cools cut in strips 1 inch wide and 4 inches long, pointing one end in the shape of a chisel. Have a label printed to cover about one-half the stick, giving the name and uses of the stick, with directions as follows: “To use as a mucilage, wet slightly and apply. To use as cement, dip in boiling water, coat the parts heavily and press firmly together.”
Making up a good supply of these sticks, he placed them on sale with dealers, delivering as sales were made. He then employed agents to canvass from house to house, and sold a great many in that way. Later he made it a mail-order proposition, and through a series of ads. in local papers published within a radius of 500 miles, he built up a good sale.
PLAN No. 378. ICELESS REFRIGERATOR
Especially during the hot summer months does the refrigerator become an imperative necessity, yet there are thousands of homes to which the prices of the ordinary kinds are beyond their means, and thousands more, especially in the country, where ice is unobtainable.
A man living in a western city, who had learned the secret as well as the value of the water bag, while traveling across the desert, applied his knowledge of evaporation to the construction of an iceless refrigerator in his own home, with such good results that he began manufacturing them and found a ready sale for all he could make. And the making was a very simple and inexpensive matter.
Procuring some mill ends, or short pieces of boards, 1 inch thick and 3 inches wide, he made a frame 3 feet high, 18 inches deep and 15 inches wide, letting the long, upright pieces extend about 3 inches below the lower part, to form legs for it to stand upon.
Next he covered the frame with a strip of wire screen, and upon the wire he placed a piece of outing flannel to fit well over it, tacking it at the corners to hold it in place, but letting the cloth extend several inches above the top of the frame, and cutting it at the upper corners so that it would fold over on the top and lie in a pan or jar which was to be placed there and kept constantly supplied with water.