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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1911
Page
7
A Philadelphia engineer argues that street width decisions are central to city planning. He urges municipal control over street establishment and maintenance to avoid wasteful design and enhance beauty with coordinated planting spaces for narrow and wide streets.
Illustration shows a new Hamilton fire house with a hose wagon two horses and four men. Each station costs $12 000 and Hamilton plans two of these fire stations funded by the local fund.
A Hamilton firehouse project funded by the chamber of commerce to build stations houses two steel cells for detaining police prisoners in addition to housing fire equipment.
A short inspirational note from Macey Monthly urges readers to help others. It emphasizes carrying others’ burdens lightens one’s own load and sharing sorrows eases personal hardship.
The article describes Basel's guardian schools where state funded recreation classes run daily and evenings from November to March. About thirty five children per class engage in games stories singing embroidery and outdoor activities under a teacher guardian with all materials supplied by the state.
Washington Suburbanites offer prizes to neighbors with the best lawns and gardens at season end. Judging emphasizes ground layout and permanency over annual blooms, with exterior house appearance as a key factor. The association says the friendly rivalry enhances neighborhood character and can raise property values.
Hudson Magazine urges residents to support local stores and tradespeople to enhance neighborhood property values and general prosperity. It argues that home merchants provide prompt service fair prices and convenient credit avoiding reliance on distant big advertisers.
Buffalo plans small parks in all congested districts to improve urban green space and provide neighborhood recreation. Local officials propose phased development across zones to ensure equitable access and community use.
Springfield Mass sets a civic standard by maintaining an attractive city yard. The illustration shows a neat stable entrance and yard foreground, while the city also owns gravel banks a trap rock quarry and storage facilities for street and sewer department equipment including a steam roller wagons and other appliances.
A Chicago meat store experiment sought to remove modern retail practices like telephone orders delivery and credit to recreate the classic producer consumer market. It lasted about eight months in a landscape of large department stores but failed as urban convenience and modern methods proved stronger. The piece notes Chicago’s public market space became a manufacturing site, while time and convenience command price.
The Sears Roebuck annual report records total sales of 61 320 792 in 1910 up from 51 011 536 in 1909 with net profit 6 759 876 after expenses and depreciation. After common stock dividends the company earned 20.47 percent on 30 million in common stock. The piece ends by urging readers to support local merchants over distant sellers.
W C Weaver street cleaning commissioner of Kansas City Missouri urges teaching school children elvic cleanliness to make the city healthier cleaner and more attractive. He calls on boys and girls to pick up stray paper or wood on streets and sidewalks and to stop throwing waste that undermines street sweepers’ work.
The article argues that the greatest fault in planted districts is individuals planting for themselves without regard to public needs or neighbors wishes, urging remedial unity and consideration.
The piece cites Omer F. Doud and two cases to explain government views on what constitutes a lottery. It describes a weight guessing contest with wired prize, and a quart Mason jar of beans where math determines the winner, both treated differently by courts. The article then previews the governmental view of a lottery.
The text outlines two court decisions on consideration in lotteries. One case allows prize drawing if contestants’ advertising and delivery efforts count as consideration, while the other rules a free entry card to draw no consideration where no payment is made. The Denver shoe store example concludes that visiting, not purchase, fails to create consideration.
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