{"id":23653,"date":"2011-07-14T20:55:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T00:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=23653"},"modified":"2011-07-14T20:55:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T00:55:29","slug":"museum-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/museum-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm antique added to Museum&#039;s collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/11july\/tilemachineth.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/>The volunteer staff at the Paine-Gillam-Scott Museum Complex<!--more--> are very excited about the newest addition to their collection of antique farm machinery. A &#8220;Farmers Cement Tile Machine&#8221;, also known as &#8220;the Ideal Cement Tile Machine&#8221; was recently donated by Mr. and Mrs. Ron Hoffman of Zeeland Michigan.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/11july\/tilemachine.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><br \/>\nManufactured in St. Johns by Richmond &#038; Holmes, the Ideal Cement Tile Machine made its debut in the farming community in 1909. L.R. Peck of St. Johns invented the machine, with the assistance of Richmond &#038; Holmes, and applied for a patent in 1906.<br \/>\nThe machine produced cement tiles in four sizes: three, four, six, and eight inches. These tiles assisted in the drainage of water on farmland. Richmond &#038; Holmes boasted, it &#8220;makes a better and more perfect tile than the ordinary clay tile, and at less than half the cost&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe Ideal Cement Tile Machine was quite popular and was marketed nationwide. In 1910, it began being manufactured in Canada.<br \/>\nThis piece of St. Johns history may be viewed at the Paine-Gillam-Scott Museum Complex, located at 106 Maple Street in St. Johns Michigan. The Museum is open on Wednesdays from 2-7 and on Sundays from 1-4. The suggested donations are two dollars for adults, one dollar for children, and five dollars for families. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgsmuseum.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.pgsmuseum.com<\/a><br \/>\nThe information in this article and more may be found in <em>The Old Machine Shop and the Ashery that Preceded It<\/em>, by Ron Matson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The volunteer staff at the Paine-Gillam-Scott Museum Complex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}