Saw this at auction and acquired to donate to small museum in Kenney Il. Not as old as I had hoped since single digit phone number fooled me. Funeral Chapel existed in 1945 to 1952. Evidently sold appliances bewteen funerals. Haven't been around cause I got married one month ago (new adventure for a 84 year old but its great)
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Congratulations to you and your blushing bride!
Neat! Congrats to you and best wishes to your spouse!
Around here it was Furniture in front , funerals in back.
Congratulations to you and the new bride,wishing you all the best.
I have a bunch of yardsticks but none have a single digit, that's a great find.
congratulations to you and the Mrs.
I have never come across a yard stick with single phone digit.
in grammar school, every teacher had a yard stick and they never used it to measure anything, but --------------------------
Congratulations and best wishes for you and your bride!
Chilly
Congratulations Jim, are you going to Indy to the MVWC meet and auction?
Well! well! well! Congratulations to you and your new bride.
Lew, have reservations for fall MVWC meet. That being said I have a reoccurence of a pituitary tumor and am going to try to schedule operation to remove it around wrench show.
Good luck with the health issues.
best wishes to all on the marriage and the health issues. no sense mixing those up with a nice rule! :smiley:
I had never really looked at old yardsticks until I read this post. I cant top the single digit phone number, but I did find a double digit and it is advert for John Deere, De Laval, Fairbanks Morse...etc. It would have followed me home just for the advertising alone.
I call it a yardstick due to its length, but it (and another one I found) are not shaped like I think of when you say yardstick. They are a square cross section that tapers from about 3/4" on one end down to 1/2" at the other. Any idea what that shape is for? They look like a walking stick, but would be pretty light for that.
Ideas?
Jim
Tank depth measurement, perhaps?
A lot of farm equipment & agricultural supply companies used the "square" yardsticks / walking stick for advertising. Some I know of used the extra sides for added advertising. New Idea farm equipment on 1 side, Allis Chalmers on 1 side, the dealer's info on the 3rd, & the yardstick on the 4th. They are also more durable than the flat ones.
Best wishes on the health issue and many happy anniversaries to you and you Mrs. :smiley:
some moons ago, I had seen a few farmers herding their cows to the barn with both square and tapered ends on the yard sticks, they
walked with them like they were using a cane and tapped the cows with them to steer them in the right direction.
Quote from: turnnut on October 21, 2017, 09:10:07 PM
some moons ago, I had seen a few farmers herding their cows to the barn with both square and tapered ends, they
walked with them like they were using a cane and tapped the cows withthem to steer them in the right direction.
I'm confused - did the barns have square and tapered ends? The cows? The farmers?
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Antecedent problem!!!!
Quote from: lptools on October 23, 2017, 03:32:44 PM
Antecedent problem!!!!
Your English teachers would be proud. I bet you can diagram sentences, too.
I can diagram, but don't.
Hello, Bill. Thanks, but my English teachers would never believe it. And you lost me on diagram!!!! Regards, Lou
Quote from: lptools on October 23, 2017, 06:08:52 PM
Hello, Bill. Thanks, but my English teachers would never believe it. And you lost me on diagram!!!! Regards, Lou
https://www.wikihow.com/Diagram-Sentences (https://www.wikihow.com/Diagram-Sentences)
It's rather out of fashion now, and never was entirely accurate, in that English uses language in ways not contemplated in this rather mechanical model; but diagramming has some value in helping to understand the basic construction of a sentence.
I had a boss - with a doctorate, of all things! - who would have benefited from a little more time on that in her high school years.