. Canadian grocer APril-June 1920 . 0 19 0 22 OXWELDED DEVICE COMBATSH. C. OF L. This is the day of H. C. of L., plus—but it is also the day of new and craftyways of sidestepping the onslaughts ofthe ugly ogre. The latest device to en-list on the side of the people is thedetachable broom handle. At first thought the broom handleseems inconsequential. Isolated and in-dividually it is. Multiply it by some fiftymillions or more, which probably ap-proximates the number of brooms soldyearly in the United States, and youhave something quite different. The detachable broom handle is abrand new idea,
. Canadian grocer APril-June 1920 . 0 19 0 22 OXWELDED DEVICE COMBATSH. C. OF L. This is the day of H. C. of L., plus—but it is also the day of new and craftyways of sidestepping the onslaughts ofthe ugly ogre. The latest device to en-list on the side of the people is thedetachable broom handle. At first thought the broom handleseems inconsequential. Isolated and in-dividually it is. Multiply it by some fiftymillions or more, which probably ap-proximates the number of brooms soldyearly in the United States, and youhave something quite different. The detachable broom handle is abrand new idea, and it is taking. Atthe present time there is a factory inVermont devoted exclusively to manu-facturing brooms with this type ofhandle. The handle is of wood fitted intoan oxywelded metal holder that clampseasily onto the brush of the broom. Themetal pari is light hut very Btrong, be-ing securely wedded by the >\\ aretylenenrocess, which not only makes it rigidbut allows the entile piece to be neatlyfinished. 46 April 23, 1920. Many Grocers Oppose Margarine Regulation General Storekeepers, Too, in Country Places Would Like to Seethe Manufacture and Sale of Oleomargarine Continued—Many Farmers Are Buying It IN VIEW of the probability, accordingto present plans, that the sale ofoleomargarine, and likewise the man-ufacture of the same, must cease by endof July of this year, W. C. Miller, secre-tary of the Retail Merchants Associa-tion of Ontario, has undertaken to securethe opinions of grocers, and general mer-chants handling the same, in regard tothe matter. With exception of a mini-mum of replies to the contrary, the voiceof the grocers has been in support of amovement to have the law prohibitingits manufacture rescinded. In a circular letter, widely dissemin-ated, Secretary Miller points out thatoleomargarine was introduced into Can-ada two years ago as a War Measure,and he draws attention to the fact thatCanadian housewives new consider oleo-margarine as being not only
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