Let me try out a few possible scenarios for the gallon Chlorox bottles in
the crawl space under a pre-1941 residence.  One possibility is that they
were placed there temporarily with the intention to take them to a land
fill or dump site at a future date.  They may have been too bulky to store
in the kitchen cabinets or garage.  Bearing in mind that "pre-1941" might
imply a depression-period mindset, a second possibility is that they were
being collected and saved for future use, perhaps for business use, and
again they may have been viewed as too bulky to store indoors.  A final
scenario, perhaps unrealistic, is that since the jugs were uncapped and may
have been all chemically malodorous like Chlorox, perhaps a previous
homeowner deliberately placed such bottles in the crawl space periodically
to repel rodents and insect pests from the area?

Allen

P.S. I am receiving the messages from URS loud and clear on my computer- no
scrambling.


> [Original Message]
> From: Ron May <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 3/11/2006 11:39:22 PM
> Subject: Amber Glass Gallon Jugs
>
> The query about brown stoneware jugs triggered my memory about a question
I  
> have meant to ask HISTARCH for quite some time. A plumber working in the
crawl 
>  space under my pre-war 1941 house found four amber glass gallon jugs at 
> various  locations under my house. All are now empty, but they were
opened and the 
>  contents could have evaporated. One is clearly embossed "Chlorox," but
the 
> other  three are not marked. For the life of me, I cannot figure out why 
> someone would  toss those jugs under the house. Any ideas? 
>  
> Ron May
> Legacy 106, Inc.