Momence High School - Monesse Yearbook (Momence, IL)

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THE JUNIOR YEAR BOOK. OUR INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITS. BY MISS ORISSEY, Teacher of commercial geography in momence high school. As the United States uses about forty dollars worth of home products for 1 -very dollar’s worth of foreign products she buys, the commercial geography of our own country should be familiar to us. In order that it may be so when the child becomes a man and has need to make use pf it in business or in thought, commercial geography is rightly given a place in our curiculum. For the purpose of making this work one of real and lasting worth, illus¬ trative material is needed. Many business firms have realized this and have made use of the opportunity to advertise by preparing exhibits which show the various steps in the manufacture of their products. These exhibits are fur¬ bished at little or no cost to schools to be used to illustrate to pics of study. In onnection, illustrative and explanatory pictures and pamphlets are sent. From petroleum, some forty articles of commercial value are made, the fine¬ ness of the article depending upon the number of refining processes through vrhich it has been taken. The exhibit furnished us by the branch of the Stand¬ ard Oil Company at Whiting, consists of twenty products obtained from petro- ' riim. It includes samples of crude oil obtained from Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, and California, samples of engine, fuel and cylinder oils, be- ;i les samples of products that have been more highly refined. One of our most interesting exhibits comes from the Carborundum Com- viy of Niagara Falls, New York. In it are found crude carborundum crys- 5 —the hardest manufactured material in the world—carborundum grains and wder, and varieties of carborundum cloth. The printed matter accompanying jives an account of the accidental discovery of carborundum and of the growth : : the demand for it, now that people are realizing its value. The H. W. Johns-Manvilie Company, of Chicago, to illustrate their line, : samples of crude asbestos, asbestos cloths, asbestos building and fire felts, asbestos roofing. The exhibit of Milward’s Helix Needles is mounted. It shows each of the : my-two processes that take place before a needle, originally a piece of coil- can appear in a paper of needles. Of equal interest is the mounted exhibit • shed by J. Wise Sons, of Newark, New Jersey. This shows a pair of : s in its seven stages of manufacture. In connection with the study of textiles, there are three exhibits. The one {• i- George A. Clark Brother, of New York, shows specimens of raw cotton the appearance of the raw cotton after it has passed through the processe s i ssary to convert it into common 6-cord thread, crochet and darning cottons. Stt i are shown by the contents of fourteen large bottles sent by the Amer- i Cotton Seed Oil Company. The American Printing Company, of Fall River, Massachusetts, has fur-

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THE JUNIOR YEAR BOOK. hished samples of natural, bleached, printed and dyed cotton cloths. With them, they sent illustrative pictures and a clear explanation of the methods employed in making each. The attention of many will be attracted to the exhibit of Cheney Brothers, who are silk manufacturers in South Manchester and Hartford, Connecticut. It shows us pierced cocoons and cocoons as they appear after being boiled with soap to extract the gum. It shows combed, spun and raw silk, and samples of manufacture hribbons, dress silks, upholstery and pile fabrics. One of the chief exports of the United States is the line of bread stuffs. One special line is wheat flour. By the Washburne-Crsby Compan} 7 , of Min¬ neapolis, is put up a very complete case containing two dozen samples, which give a clear idea of the various steps taken between the receiving of wheat at the mill and the sending out of the “Gold Medal” flour. They sent a chart showing the parts of the wheat kernel, and a pamphlet describing the steps in the manufacture of flour. The Corn Products Manufacturing Company, of Chicago, sent samples of corn, British and American Gums, anhydrous, “70,” and Climax sugars, syrups, glucose, corn oils, and four sorts of starch. The printed matter gives an inter¬ esting account of the glucose and corn syrup trade. Of Cocao exhibits there are two. They come from Walter Baker Com¬ pany and from Huyler. They and the excellent large pictures that came with them give a complete idea of the source our chocolate and cocoa. They include entire, cracked and powdered cacao beans, cocoa butter, plain and fancy choc¬ olate. The cocoanut exhibit of the Dunham Manufacturing Company of New York, consists of a cocoanut in its outer husk, one in its inner shell, and shred¬ ded cocoanut. A letter describes its culture and manufacture in detail. A full line of whole and ground spices from the Stickey Poor Spice Company, of Boston, is attractively put up. Green and roasted coffees, and teas from China, Japan, and India, prepared by various methods of drying, make up the exhibit of Chase Sanborne. Other exhibits have been received from the following companies: Horlick Food Company, of Racine, Wis.; Church Dwight Company, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Rumford Chemical Works, Providence, R. I.; Portland Cement Works, La¬ Salle, Ill.; Sherwin-Williams Paint Company, Cleveland, Ohio; Pacific Coast Borax Company, Chicago, Ill.