He worked for various advertisers, including Bissell Carpet Sweeper Company, Swift & Company and Dr . Shoop's patent medicine company.
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He also convinced Bissel manufacturers to offer more variety of carpet sweepers, such as making them with twelve different types of wood.
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"' Melville Reuben Bissell "'( September 25, 1843 March 15, 1889 ) was an American entrepreneur who invented the modern carpet sweeper.
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The home of Anna Bissell McCay, daughter of carpet sweeper magnate Melville Bissell, is a four-story Victorian home, on the border of South Pasadena.
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I've bought several of those little carpet sweepers _ one for my home here, one for our Maine house, and one for my daughter ."
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While working for the Bissel Carpet Sweeper Company, at Hopkins'sent out five thousand letters offering carpet sweepers as Christmas presents-one thousand people sent in orders.
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While working for the Bissel Carpet Sweeper Company, at Hopkins'sent out five thousand letters offering carpet sweepers as Christmas presents-one thousand people sent in orders.
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One of the three judges for the Bissell carpet sweeper advertising contest was Charles Austin Bates, an important early copywriter and New York ad agency founder and owner.
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He said Sebik began by picking up a carpet sweeper and asking Stegall if she would get angry if " I cracked you over the head with this ."
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One notable home that was lost was the Bissell house, built for Melville R . Bissell ( inventor of the carpet sweeper ) & his wife WOOD-TV Channel 8.
