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Ferdon Lumber Yard

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
February
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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It is conveniently located corner Fourth Avenue and Depot streets; and is under the proprietorship of Mr. James Tolbert, who is doing a large business as manufacturer of and dealer in the best grades of Saginaw gang-sawed lumber, lath, shingles, etc, while square timber, dressed flooring and siding is alsn kept constantly on hand, and superior conveniences are enjoyed for seasoning, etc. In addition to the above lie is also engaged as dealer in aewer pipe, fire brick, Üue linings, lire clay. etc, and is sole agent for " Adaman t Wall Piaster" for Ann Arbor. As the nature and utility of Adamant is not generally known, we wotild cali attenfion to the following l'acts - thai Adamant Wall Piaster is a prepared mortnr invented by a celebrated Germán chemist, after years of study and experience. It is put up in bags ready for use at any season of the year, and is simply mixed with water and put on with the trowel in the usual way. In the course of its prèparation it is uniformly mixed by machinery, thus avoiding any uncertain result,and four hours after it is applied it is as hard a.s marble thereby enabling carpenters to follow in forty-eight hours. Adamant has also been found to he iniich clieaper than theoldslyle of wall piaster made from lime and sand, as it not only adheres firmly to lath, brick, stone or iron, and makes a hard, smooth wal], but has also been proved to be decidedly durable and warranted to stand the test of time. It is now generally conceded to be the best wall piaster in the world, and the only genuine improvement of the kind, while it is as mach superior to mortar as mortar is to mud. It is not porous as is common piaster, and therefore does not absorb the germs of disease, while its sanitary quality has commended it for use in several large hospitals of Philadelphia and elsewhere. It has also been proved that fire and water have no effect on it and falling ceilings are unknown. Many a building has been saved by its Adamant, and it was the principal medium in saving the Grand Opera House of SyracuBe, N. Y., frona total destruction by fire. It is equally desirable i'or the cheapest teneraent house as wel] as ibr the most elegant private mansión or public building, and has been highly endorsed by painteïs, paper hangers, arcliitects, builders, engineers and scientific men all over the country. It has been used in plastenng over three hundred thousand buildings during t he last tliree years, proving it to be the plastering material of' this progressive age. Fifty years ago there was but one company and one factory, which turned out about ten thousand barrels per year. This year l!ie output will run np into the millions, and il is now beingmanu lactnied on three continents, by nu re than twenty five companies, and sold everywhere. It has been' used with eminent satisfaction on many large buildings through the country, including the magnificent Masonic Temple of Chicago, 111., the new Hudson Building of Detroit, Mich., Tribune Building of Minneapolis, Minn., Tremont Theatre of Boston. Mass., the A. W. Wright Sanitarium of Alma, Mich., the Livingston Countv Court House of Ilowell, Mich.: Baptis! Church of Flint, and the following buildings in Ann Arbor, Universíty of Michigan, Chemical Laboratory, Hon. Chas. R. Whitman's residence, Hospital Buildings, Mr. O. L. Robinson's resi dence, and others. The proprietor of the above business in Ann Arbor, is Mr. James Tolbert, of East Saginaw, who has a wholesale office in that city in the Beuna Vista Block, and is also extensively engaged in the manufacture of both rough and dressed lumber, etc. The manager of the retail office in this city" is Mr. T. J. Keech, a gentleman of twenty-five years experience, under whose management a large patronage has been enjoyed in the city and country, and which is steadily and rapidïy increasing.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier