THE LAWN SWEEPERThis comes up from time-to-time - the desire to sweep or rake
lawns (or other areas). There are two possibilities here: one is that
the average mug sees a need for a product; the other is that the average
mug sees a way to make it cheaper.
Whatever, the reality is that the sweeper business has become a multi-million
dollar industry. Here are articles from
1910 and
1923.