Arose 8:30 A.M. Breakfast etc. Talked with family more or less all day about wonderful, novel and interesting experiences of trip. Delivered eggs. Shoveled snow. Home in evening. Unpacked. Out to mailbox with letters. To bed 10 P.M.
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So, Stanford had a good time on his trip. Such effusive praise is seldom seen in these pages!
I looked up snow shovels in 1922 and apparently people had both galvanized steel and wooden shovels available to them. Imagine trying to lift a wooden shovel laden with snow!
Here is a drawing of a 1922 patent application for a new-fangled snow shovel that, while made of wood, is designed to push the snow rather than lift it.
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So, Stanford had a good time on his trip. Such effusive praise is seldom seen in these pages!
I looked up snow shovels in 1922 and apparently people had both galvanized steel and wooden shovels available to them. Imagine trying to lift a wooden shovel laden with snow!
Here is a drawing of a 1922 patent application for a new-fangled snow shovel that, while made of wood, is designed to push the snow rather than lift it.
Grandpa S. perhaps wrote the mentioned letters to his relatives, telling of his visit to Boston
ReplyDeleteInteresting that that style snow pusher, now made of metal, of course, is quite popular here in Maine. I have yet to get one.
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