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  2. Hills Hoist - Wikipedia

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    A Hills Hoist is a height-adjustable rotary clothes line, designed to permit the compact hanging of wet clothes so that their maximum area can be exposed for wind drying by rotation. They are considered one of Australia's most recognisable icons , and are used frequently by artists as a metaphor for Australian suburbia in the 1950s and 1960s.

  3. Clothes line - Wikipedia

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    Longer washing lines often have props holding up the mid-section so the weight of the clothing does not pull the clothesline down to the ground. More elaborate rotary washing lines save space and are typically retractable and square or triangular in shape, with multiple lines being used (such as the Hills Hoist from Australia). Some can be ...

  4. Gilbert Toyne - Wikipedia

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    Gilbert Toyne's final patented rotary clothes hoist design was in 1945 "Improvements relating to hydraulic clothes hoists" (Australian Patent No. 128009) [8] Hydraulic clothes hoists used fluid as a means of raising and lowering the clothes line frame. At least seven hydraulic clothes hoists had been patented in Australia prior to Toyne's design.

  5. Margaret P. Colvin - Wikipedia

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    Patent Model - Clothes-Pounder, 1878, [3] Hagley Museum and Library Of Colvin's four laundry improvements, her first one was the most important. It was for an improvement upon washing-machines and consisted of a rotating hollow cylinder inside a boiler which could clean a variety of fabrics including carpets and laces without rubbing and damaging them.

  6. A Guide to Laundry Symbols: Find Out What Those Washing ...

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    Two lines: Gentle cycle All of that explains how to machine dry an item (and if you should). But if your square doesn’t have a circle at all, it should air-dry.

  7. Man Accused of Murdering His Mother, 70, in 'Gruesome ... - AOL

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    A man in Michigan has been accused of killing his own mother before allegedly shooting his neighbor. Roger Schweda, 40, was arraigned on Monday, Dec. 9 of two counts of open murder and two counts ...

  8. Wickes Companies - Wikipedia

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    Brothers Henry Dunn Wickes and Edward Noyes Wickes moved to Flint, Michigan, from New York in 1854, becoming involved in the area's lumber industry.The brothers, along with partner H.W. Wood, later established Genesee Iron Works, a foundry and machine shop; after buying out Wood, the business was renamed Wickes Bros. Iron Works and moved to Saginaw, Michigan, to be closer to a source of pig iron.

  9. 18-Year-Old Charged with Double Murder of Teen Stepsisters ...

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    A suspect has been arrested following the reported shooting of Alabama stepsisters Kayden Lynch, 19, and Madison Daly, 18, on Christmas Eve. Per Lee County outlet The Observer, 18-year-old Jalen ...