Homecroft Beats Flats and Rural Life Ideals Rise
A reflective editorial argues small towns can retain youth by creating appealing village life. George Maxwell champions free town living and warns rapid urbanization harms mental and physical health, urging investment in rural homes and cooperative village development over city drift. It cites urban decline examples in New York, Pittsburgh, and Chicago and notes Chinese and Japanese emphasis on homecraft and stable environments for national strength.
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George IL Maxwell
Maxwell
New York
Pittsburg
Chicago
Orient
Settings For Public Buildings And Playgrounds Need
Public space plans call for lawns around municipal buildings and wider parkways with street trees. A growing demand argues for grass coverage on principal streets and for broader playgrounds as essential to healthy civic life and self government.
Care of Pets and Household Sewing Tips From Delineator
Summer care for pets stresses cleanliness, fresh water, and diet with dog biscuits or milled oats. cats should have milk mush and vegetables, while birds need seed and sugar. Home grooming includes veil cleaning, fabric washing methods, and a borax camphor solution to restore black garments Mixes of beetles, perfumes, and gluing techniques appear in household care tips.
How to Clean Gloves and Make Excellent Paste
The article explains cleaning thick white suede gloves with alum and fuller's earth, and magnesia between paper layers for Sik gloves. It details laying gloves on brown or white paper to prevent color transfer. It then provides a paste recipe using gum arabic starch sugar, cooked to tar-like thickness, kept with camphor or clove oil.
How to Make Almond Milk From Almonds
A historical method describes blanching sixty almonds and grinding them with two lumps of sugar. The mixture is pounded with rosewater until a powder forms and the liquid blends. After standing overnight it is strained and touted as a fine lotion and bleach.
How to Believe Ivy Poisoning Remedy
An old note advises orange juice as a simple ivy poisoning remedy. It recommends bathing the affected area to stop itching and burning, with skin peeling occurring in a few days and no further spreading.
Cathedral of Mexico City stages rise and cost recount
The cathedral project began in 1578 and finished in 1738 with a reported cost of 2 million dollars. Rev Father Paul C Rhode of St Michael's Church South Chicago is named auxiliary bishop of Chicago. London charity work reaches about 7300 poor children yearly. Rev Alfred J Church held multiple church and scholarly roles in London.
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Mexico City
Paul C. Rhode
St. Michael's
South Chicago
Chicago
Greater London
Tugged School Union
Alfred J. Church
Look Aloft in Sorrow A Poem by Jonathan Lawrence
A poetic meditation on resilience and faith in adversity urging the reader to look aloft when facing life’s storms and loss. The verse pairs scenes of cooking tips with solemn reflections on friendship, love, and death, concluding with a plea to keep hope bright at all times.
Nun motif and flood of box listings in Aberdeen poem
The excerpt blends a Leigh Hunt poem with a long list of labeled location boxes in Aberdeen. It names box numbers and street intersections such as North Aberdeen Box No 4 and Highland Home Box No 5, plus Mills and depots, interspersed with romantic lines about vows and distant loves.
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Young and Thomas
North Aberdeen
Cleveland Streets
Highland Home
Terrace Avenue
D Street
High School
Burrows’ Dock
Home
Northern Pacific Railroad
Boone and King
Aberdeen
Wilson Bros’ Mill
AID of
Athens
Amiens
S. E. Slade Mill
Zoe Mou
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Stay It
Winn
Homecroft
George [Everett
Edward Lycan
Moclips Beach
Pacific Ocean
Goly
N. P. Depot
Ocean Beach
Jonathan Lawrence
Leigh Hunt
Istamboul
Zoe Mousas Agape
Heron
Fourth
Franklin School
Jefferson and
Hume and
H Streets
Anderson & Middleton Mill
Heron and
Broadway
Third
Hart-Wood Lumber Co.'s Mill
Western Cooperage
Washington Streets
Tyte Lhan A
Roosevelt Deach
Roosevelt Beach
South G Street
Will Lanning
Olmes Business College
Washington and
Tenth Streets
Portland
Oregon
L. L. Maley
Telephone 1701
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