August, 1906 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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BURLINGTON 



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Screens and Screen Doors 



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MARSTON'S 



HAND AND FOOT POWER 



CIRCULAR SAW 



Iron Frame, 36 inches high. 



CENTRE PART OF TOP IS MADE OF IRON ACCURATELY PLANED. 



with grooves on each side of saw for gauges to slide in. 



Steel shafts and best Babbitt metal boxes 

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Just Published 



Tenth Edition 



cTVlODERN 

 PLUMBING 

 STEAM AND 

 HOT WATER 

 H EAT I N G 



CONTAINING 

 THE cTMOST 

 (MODERN 

 c7WETHODS 

 OF PLUMB- 

 ING AS CON- 

 STRUCTED 

 tAT THE 

 PRESENT 

 DAT E if i0 



Soil and Waste Pipe Ventilation, Back Vent- 

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 Their Advantages. Siphonage 01 Traps. The 

 Cause and How to Remedy the Sam.-. How to 

 Test Soil and Waste Pipes. Probable Questions 

 of Plumbing Examining Board, and Answers to 

 Sam.. Hydraulics of Plumbing, with original 

 Illustrations. Practical Drawings and all Im- 

 portant Features in the Construction of Modern 

 Plumbing Work. 



STEAM AND HOT 

 WATER HEATING 



How to correctly figure on anj size or shape 



of building with steal • hot water. How to 



find the heating capacity of any shape or make 

 of boiler for steam or hot water heating. The 

 most practical time-saving tables ever compiled 

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More practical illustrations than ever pub- 

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 various systems of construction in the heating 

 and ventilating of buildings by the steam or 

 hot water systems. 



By JAMES J. LAWLER.-, 



Over three hundred diagrams and illustra- 

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 Waste Pipe System of Plumbing. One-pipe Sys- 

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 Overhead System. Fan System of Heating and 

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 1862 



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