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HOW TO REGAIN HEALTH AT HOME A Sane, Natural Treatment. We all know that rest, recreation and proper diet will correct mest ill: but circumstances will not alway; permit throwing down one’s. daily cares for such expensive Juxuries as a trip away—even if one’s health does require it. In such cases BIOPLASM (Bower) is of inestimable value, for it requires neither a change of climate nor giving up the usual daily routine. S BIOPLASM has ne competitor 'm therapeutics, because it occupies a field and is built on the new siology. It cures permarently be- cause it cures naturally—physiologi- cally—as nature cures. : BIOPLASM reaches the seat of trouble—the primary cells. It pre- pares for elimination all lurking pois- ons caused by stagnant waste tissues, rejuvenates Yhe poisoned and imtoxi- cated whiwé blood cells, in order t they may resume their ural task of ariving into the bowels for evie tion all disease-breeding germs. In healthy bidod, these wandering lis are constantly moving about, at- acking all enemies with a precision that all germs of disease must vani: Keep up a healthy blood circu n and you will be immune from ng cold as well as disease. BIO- SM will accomplish these resuits | thoroughly and quickly. It is abso- | lutely harmiess as it is free from all onous elemen: ter wha your ailment might 4 IOPLASM. The Lee & Os- good Co. of this city will supply. you. | It comes in tablet form., ani | ant to take. Price $1.00 per bot- | | Write us for the history of this re- | markable curative agent. 1t will terest you from cover to cover. { postal reauest will do. Address Bio- | plasm Mfg. Company, 94 John street, | New York City. } Note: A mild laxa i LITHIN should ak v during treatmen v | glve vou complimentary a size bottle of SAL-I IN with purchase | of first bottle o plasm on request. | Drive Sick | daches Away. i stomach, sassy life ar and the sy it well satis- | every hox Recommended new them E be ed Lee & ( —_————— NEW ENGLAND BUILDING OPERATIONS. ¢ Building Opera- s compiled by any, follow 1913.$33,908,000 41,931,000 856,000 for for March for March e S | CLEARS THE SKIN | | Lo | Popular Massage Cream That Re-| moves ANl Dirt from the 1 Pores of the Skin. | The mo: wponds to Hokara. the ide eream | and sclentific remed skin euses, and after a few (reatments n becomes soft and velvety imples and wrinkles. ek . | i when this pure warts as 2 food or face | wrprise your the dead biack skin and dirt t used in treating the | cas! ommended by Lee & ! gents "BUILDING ACTIVITY IN NEW LONDON. Several Building Changes and Addi- tions are Contemplated. The Soltz Co., is to move the build- ing at No. 72 Bradley street to 138 Bradley street and to move the build- ing that at present occupies the front of the property at 138 Bradley street to_the rear. Al. Wilson Dart is planning to build a structure on Howard street of stone, brick and cement. Theodore Bodenwein desires to erect a cne-story addition on the rear of the Day building with cement floor, with a wood frame covered with iron. Th- building inspector claims it to be in violation of the ordinance covering the fire limits. Building Applications Receiveed. The following applications were re- ceived and referred to the committee on new buildings: E. Y. Haskell—Garage, wood, Bellevue place. 18x20, Capt. ‘M. A. Goodale—Frame dwell- ing, 24x24, Harris street. Emaron J. Eaton—Two and half story dwelling, wood and cement, Bel- levue place. Vincenzo Loicano—Additior of wood 10x10 to dwelling in Connecticut ave- nue. Antone Joseph—Addition, dwelling, Dow court, two stories, 12x12. A. W. Barrows—Convert barn at 10 Barrows court into tenement by rais- ing roof. Luke Martin is planning to build a wocden bollung 26x48 on Montauk avenue. There is some guestion re- garding its proximity to the building linc. BUILDING AND REALTY. l " Placing New Work The In cing Contract Throuchout Hesitancy Under State. Real estate transactions In the Connecticut towns reported in The Commercial Record for the past week ure of a somewhat smaller volume | than for the corresponding week of the previous year, the sales for the week being 346, against 380 a year ago. A total of $854,433 in mortgage lcans for the week compares with $1,038,200 for the same week of 1912. The three petitions in bankruptey reported for the week have average sssets of $2,326, and liabilities of NEW THREE STORY WARD BLOCK IN MARKET STREET [ T=—==IH $7,108. The record compares favora- bly with the like week of previous vears. While there is an unusually large number of plans reported each week fer new building projects, there seems 0 B M to be a hesitancy in placing them un- INSTALLING REFRIGERATION PLANT Important Changes Being Made at Swift & Co. Building— Increased Storage Permitted—Other Activity Among Contractors. Ice will no jonger be a factor in the roof is located the condenser, with a refrigeration of the local plant of = s O[l\ plpin coils set in v;occgzln : s e ‘ce of men | framework, which is very noticeable Swift & ‘Company, fof a force of menl oo the rear of the -biilding. The is at work installing a new ammonia | ammonia is compressed in the base. et € ansion equipment which wiil | ment to about 150 pounds pressure and e possible o uniform temperature | basses (htough the colls of pipes in 4 : % ie refrizerator to the roof where it a uniform eost of operation” thel 1 e R e s year round. The company is install- | ment, the process being repeated. ing these systems its houses all | The ammonia passing through the over the country. The chanse wasi PiDes extracts the heat from -the at- e e Yy o nignnse . Wag | mosphere and by regulation of the e i e \d by | pressure any desired tempecature éan S Sb%.hy ! be secured. The ammonia is purchased i new system: i long tanks. One of the valu tures of the| The beef refrigerator is located on new refriz lies in the | the main floor of the build‘ng with ving of space, the change being the refrigerating room above it. Fiues at there will be twice as much ' on each side of the beef rocm carry - room as formerly, an increase . the warm air into the upper room n space much appreciated on account | where it is ccoled and réturns to the of the demands of growing business. | lower room: tarough a long aperature The new em will be much cleaner e middle of the floor which di- af ;n and will do av with them. The storage rcoms for the fillings of the refrigera- . eggs, eic, are on the second tor. i temperature can al- with the erating room and ways be ok ned herea and the are ccoled by a series of pipe colls refrigerator will be kept at about 35.which pass {hroush them. The am- degrees. nia enters the 2% Inch pipes at The new equipment will be com nut re and when ed about April 22. It w eac r is at a press- to have the wor e i 2 [ of E Practically the weels but delays in procuring the only machinery to the equipment materials have set the workmen back. he pumping system, and -the motor As yet the pumps and the piping are ! which operates the pumps. the ‘only parts on :d. The cement: According to the experience. of the foundation for the machines in the| company in its other plants, the new cellar has been completed. On the! svstem will be a big improvement, in- have an Ash (patented). Why ra PPancses The Ash Hod is deep and catches all of the ashes. carry and doesn’t spill. old, clumsy ash pan is hard to remove and strews ashes over floor and stairs. wo ods Hod with a Coal Hod beside it It is easy to remove and Both hods free. The The wonderful “Single Damper ” [patented] makes perfect control of fire and oven. Better than two dam- MR pers. Have you seen it? Gas ovens if desired; end [single] or elevated [double]. For Sale by M. HOURIGAN, Norwich Agent Walker & Pratt Mfg. Co., Makers, Boston it | S der contract. The record of building voiving a saving of space, time and |permits granted in the four leading | money In vperation citles of the State does not show up | 5 i in comparison with last year. | Changing Three-Tenement House. e R ey The three-tenement house of An-|for buildings costing $215,450, which | tonio Colletti at No. 232 Franklin; with 123 permits granted a street is being remodeled and on the for buildings costing | main floor there will pe a store with a fourteen-foot front. The building is | being extended about three and a half | feet “allowing for show windows on each side of the entrance. The frame- §619,820. Contracts of importance which have been awarded during the week in- clude, schoolhouses in New Britain and Portland, clubhouse in Stamford, work for the new front is completed. | church in New Haven, theatres in| There were formerly two rooms where | Waterbury and Stamford, store and the store is located. lodge building in Norwalk, business | A three-story brick addition on the | bloc: in Bridgeport, New Britain j rear of the building has just been com- | and Naugatuck, factories in Water- pleted. This addition is 12 by 20 feet, | bury and Bridgeport, store and ten- and has a paper roof. ement buildings In Hartford and | Building Closed In, Stamford, warehouse in Hartford, and residences in Hartford, New | ine | _Steady progress is being made on|Haven, Greenwich and Wilton. In the Mahouney two tenement house in|addition a large number of contracts | | West Main street. It'bac been shin- | have been placed for one, two, three, | gled, and cai s are now at work | six, eight and nine-family houses in | shingiing the sides. It will be a num- | New Haven, Hartford, Bridgeport, | ber of weeks before it is ready for oc- | Stamford, South Norwalk, Bristol, | | cupancy. | East Hartford, New Britain, Water- { i | bury and New Canaan. | R R aton Yy | “"Plans fof new projects reported for | Excavation for the cellar of the Pu-|) . ‘week include, schoolhouses in i lasli hall building in North Main! giyford and Fairfield, hospital in | | street is nndvrvg'a,v, a half dozen men! Hartford, store and office building | belrs engaged in the work at the|in" Bristol, church in Ansonia, store present time. A .storehouse for the|gapg tenement buildings in South Nor- toois and material has been erected on! walx and New Britain, -factory in A the arotnd. | Bridgeport, theater in New Haven, ! Building Razed. | garage in Stamford, parish bouse in The brick building in Market street 1 "“")‘X-‘e O \*‘:’ou‘:;‘?; purchased by W. T. Ward has been e razed and most of the material carted Yew Haven —BridgePort, —Stamiord away, in reparatio for the erection oOf ine.new thrseinturs halloihatoh the, DeT.of mrivate restdences are repPz;rged site. The entrance to the second and 1 New Haven, Hartford and Plain: floors will be on the north side, : and there | Norwich had eleven sales of real S {estate last week to seven a year ago, the old stirway i will be a double entrance in the cen- | °Sta zo. | ter of the main floor, Which will be | Yhile for the Tenth of Morch thers ) azanged for'two 'atofes, hut can be|in 1811 The mortgage Ioans “lasti thrown into one. The cellar is belng | [} 1L Teo MOMEIES, OoC08 o0 cleared of the debris, and the con- {‘.m‘f Moreh they. wete 352455 . to strustion. ~ wois Willl be.etacted S and 1950 613 vor March 1912-and $458,389 0 | pushed along to completion as fast as | 3a17 > : | jsemble D = { New London had ten sales last | { weex and four a vear a-o. The mort- | | MIDDLETOWN. | zages totaled $31,950 to $4,950 a vear | S5 |ago. In March there were 25 sales to ! Work Underway on Several Hous: !17 Jast March and 28 in 1811. Mort- | $101,980 to sages in March totaled in 1911, | School Addition SubcContract. — — $46,375 last year and 41 Middletown, April. 9—Arcitect George | e Griswold has completed plans for a LORD’S POINT. | new two-family house to be erected | Contractor George McDonald of No- | {ar Staddle Hill. It will be 28x60 feet, ' ank has secured the contract for a| jof frame construction, and will con- ! jarge cottage to be built on Prospect tain 10 rooms, with furnace heat, 8as ! street for Mrs, W. Packer, of New | and electric lights and modern plumb- | Yo.1c, and work on the foundations | ing. ENS !\ will be started at once. The building | Denis O'Brien has been awarded!is to be ready for occupancy the com- the contract for the mason, work for | ijne cummer, | the new addition to the Central = B et { schoolhouse in Portland. The addi- | ROCKVILLE, CONN tion will be 28x70 feet, two stories | S & e Bigh, built of brick, and will comtain | _ILouis Koelisch has given the con- ?loul' classrooms. Brownstone will be | fract to G““_rg" Diedering _for a | used for the foundation and sill [ T eelinn O Rhe cuetediies New Store Fronts. 4 — | Work will be started at once on the SOUTH MANCHESTER. new store fronts for August John- | The new four-family house being | son’s stores on Main street. New | ere on Spruce street is now ready | pilate glass fronts will be installed | to finish, ¥ ard five modern stores provided | " The local painters began on the| Plasterers are at work on the eX- | new schedule of wages on April 1.1 terior of Charles Warner's residence | The minimum scale will be 271 cents | on Washington street which is being | per hour and forty.four hours will| | remodeled and enlarged. | coastitute a week. | thI\'fllnr Mazzotta is plastering | ‘ - ! three double Louses in Cromwell for | ?, et @ s FISHER'S ISLAND i e | (oThe Mansion house dock Is belng | torn up and a new one will be built NIANTIC. ‘\‘:\ the T. A. Scott Co. The E. M. &| W. Fer b Co. p C ave TS Several New Houses Boing Built and | tecus forine tonrns ong tor Tosiat | Wiring of Comstock Hall Planned. | A sidewalk is being built of cement - { from the post office to the Munna- A great improvement in Comstock tawket dock, and also to the Mansion hall is to be made in the near fu-|house dock. When finished it wiil be ture if enough funds can be raised. the longest strip of cement sidewalk | This is by putting electric lights into | on the island. | Comstock hall. Althoush there is| —— plenty of light from the lamps, It is SAYBROOK. | thought that electricity will do better If money enough can be raised the | lights will be instailed at once. Building Activity. There are severaj houses being built in this section just now and prospects Centractor Charles W. White hafl{ secured the lumber for the two houses he is about to erect at Saybrook| | Heights. | Frederick Chapman, government en- gineer, started in at Higganum Mon- d for = T s | ;:—fi‘lmf."g" a vféng{figs n:eir ufmnvrix : day, where the contractors are bufid- which is occupled by H bbie Fraser, | & a breakwater. The tug Clifford Next to Mr. Bruce's house Albert Aarrived at that point last week. They | Payne has bought a lot = will finish up the w_ork Whiv»h they had | Trederick Kelser of Waterford has |° S!Ve up last winter owing to the| ice. i bult him a cellar and T. P. Perk has commenced building the house. Andrew Miller's cailar nearly done. Over it he will erect a house this spring. It is reported that An- gelo Felosi will bufld a house on the corner of the hill near opposite the old boarding house, s, More than eight miilion 'calves are{ slaughtered each year in the United | | States. THIS WILL Mother wuray's Sweet Powders INTEREST MOTHERS. for —_—— Children, a Certaln rellef for Feverish- MYSTIC. ness. Headache, Bad Stomach, Teething . 2 | Disorders, move and regulate the Bow- nsive ‘mprovements are heing | els and Destroy Worms. They break made to the house occupied by John|up colds in 24 hours. They are so Senhedy of b ANUES N dalen ubin e BESREnblo (o et S ChaTaN | Tike pany. An addition. which will com- them, Over 10.000 testimoulals. Used| prise several rooms. is being built and | P, MR for, 22 . bl the el] Is to be carried up another | pie maslod PHE G e N TR story. Oimsled, Le Roy, 72 Harris St., Putnam, Com\.I Town’s full of Studebakers . Studebaker Farm Wagons, Studebaker Bug- gies and Studebaker Delivery Wagons. —and every owner of a Studebak hicl is proud of it. Because he knows'it ise i}x‘;eb:sz Studebaker wagons and buggies are built on honor and with the experience that comes from sixty years of wagon building, and you get the benefit of this experience when you buy a Studebaker vehicle Whether you live in town or country; whether you want a work or pleasure vehicle, there'sa Studebaker to fill your require- ments. Farm wagons, contractor's wagons, trucks, municipal vehicles, ice wagons, dump wagons and carts, road oilers, buggies, depot wagons, surreys, pony carts, runabouts—we make them all, —also harness, for any sized animal, for any vehicle, of the same high standard of quality as the Studebaker vehicles. See our Dealer or write us. STUDEBAKER South Bend, Ind. NEW YORK CHICAGO DALLAS KANSAS CITY D MINNEAPOLIS BOSTON SAN FRANCISCO PHILADELPHIA ontractors and Owners should get our prices for TIN, COPPER and GALVANIZED WORK before plac- ing your orders. PIPING FOR STEAM HEATING Large stock of Miil Supplies always om hand Specialty of HONEYWELL Hot Water Heating J. P. BARSTOW & CO. 23-25 WATER STREET, NORWICH, CONN. STORAGE Largest capacity in the city. A. N. CARPENTER 23 Commerce St All kinds of Mason Build- ing Materials, Small Trap Rock for driveways and walks. . CONTRACTOR FOR EVERYTHING PLUMBING AND STEAM FITTING IT NOW do. and lates latest devices in and us up on t see We’ will fix ¥ shape at a modera A. J. WHOLEY, Telophone 734 12 Ferry St Sanitary Plumbin; A peep into an up-to-date bathroom —DEALERS IN— Lamber of All Kinds Lime, Cement, Drain Pipe, Fertilizers, Ladders, Fire Brick, is only less refresling than the bath itself. During the the more look to th | comfort. 1 will show you samples and pln&m of the porcelain an!d other tubs JUHN 0. FOX & C0. | e e et manees trom a sanitary standpoint—and guar- | antee the enthie job. . F. TOMPKINS, 67 West Main Stree: 1. F. BURNS L] L] 1 Heaiing and Flumbing, 92 Franklin Strez Paints, Oils and Varnishes and Salt C. M. WILLIAMS General Contractor and Builder Mill Construction a specialty 218 MAIN STREET, Telephone 370 Norwich, Conn. RO 10 Wem Tiuubin ain St. Nerwich, Conn Agent N. B. O. Shaot Packine THE FENTON-CHARNL BUILDING C9., inc. GENERAL CONTRACTORS NORWICH. CONN. K Y Our Spring showing of CARRIAGES and HARNESS is open for your inspection. We have a large line of the best man- ufactured in the country at the low- est prices. o . Before trading this year let us show you our line and quote your our prices. The L. L. Chapman Co. 14 Bath St., Ntirwich, Ct. 5 = the Fire we are still doing business at the old stanc and the quality of our work is jupt tle same as ever—"The Best. Notbing but skilled labor employed 2-4 besi materials used in our STETSON & YOUNG, l Carpenters and Builders Teivphone - West Main 8t work. THERE 1s no advertsing medium in tern Connecticut coual to The Rul- éiin ivr business results,