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In the lighting industry the newest fad is the old gas lamp. The fad got going last year when Whitt Stephens, Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. president and board chairman, offered to install gas lamps free for the entire city of Little Rock, Ark. as a stunt to publicize gas. The city could not legally accept, but Stephens had six gaslights put up near city hall. So many householders liked their soft glow that Stephens decided to mass-produce the lamps through the company's subsidiary, Arkla Air Conditioning Corp.
Mounted on a post and boxed in an old-fashioned lantern, the soft-glowing lamps...
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