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IIOUTl CUI/rUHE 



October 6, 1917 



"Knock Hard 

 I am Upstairs" 



J omce. 



' |'-i._ ^ JuBt out ( 



■ — L,^_^ ' to have a 



Y'^^TKHDAY. lmi)iii'n<"(l to lie 

 ■ liusHiiiK the biiiUIInR where 

 our first •little old 



of curiosity, stopped In 

 look at It. 



we had 

 odlce." 



On the door 1 found a card, 

 written in a scrawly hand, 

 which read: 'Knock hard I am upstairs." 



Of course I didn't knock. 



Didn't, because that sign struck me as being a bluff. 

 There Isn't any upstairs. 



If there Is, the celling must be about one-half foot 

 high. 



Which means going around on hands and knees. 



That sign really meant that the boss had gone to 

 the ball game, and didn't want to admit it. Or he 

 was taking his allernoon nap and would rather not 



be disturbed unless gome one absolutoly Insisted on 



iliiiuk' liiisincss 



All iif which set me thinking. 



Thinking of you and some others. 



You, who a month ago had your heating all gone 

 over and put In perfect condition in hIiui when the 

 first nippy, frosty nights come. 



Some others, who have shut their doors to all our 

 doil-now suggestions and are serMulngly refusing to 

 do a thing, until ,Iack Frost knocks so hard on their 

 door they have to come down stairs and get busy. 



If you happen to see any of them in the next week 

 or two, lie so good as to remind them that Hitchlngs 

 & Company go anywhere to make poor heating good, 

 or good beating better. 



H iicK insrs °i^ G) mp a ny* 



NIW \<IKU. IKII IlniiKlwny 



BOSTON. 4!l r.il.riil Str<^ 

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'IlILAnEI.I' 



I \. IIP S. I.MIl Mr.cl 



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OIM GUARD!! 



No Greenhouse Man can afford to take the risk 

 of leaving his place unprotected against the possibilities 

 of overheating or frost, when absolute safety against 

 either of these contingencies can be assured by install- 

 ing the faithful, sleepless, watchman, whose 

 portrait appears herev\'ith All you have to do is to 

 stt the hands^one at minimum and the other at maxi- 

 mum temperature limit and the Thermostat will give 

 instant warning if temperature goes above or below. 



4KII TKiis for 9*7.00 



STANDARD THERMO CO. 



Clifton and Shirley St«., BOSTON, MASS. 



The famous KROESCHELL GREENHOUSE BOILER has made a 

 wonderful record for greenhouse heating, because of its practicabil- 

 ity — high efficiency and unequalled fuel economy. 



Kroeschell Bros. Co., 466 W.Erie St., Chicago 



IN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS KINDLY MENTION HORTICUI-TCRE 



