Women of Bellevue Pledge to Paint Town Whole
About forty women in Bellevue Ohio form the village improvement club to clean and brighten the town despite male resistance. They secure paint donations, mount ladders, and paint church, town hall, stores, and homes, with plans to expand to farms and businesses while reclaiming pride.
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Bellevue
Michigan
New York Press
Guy L. Miller
Miller
Ethel Hewitt
General Tollager
New
Henry Rowe
Permigsion Fe
New Pittsburg Street Cleaners Use Salamander Waste Burners
A new head of the Pittsburg highways and sewers department, Mr. B. G. Nicewaner, announces a plan to keep streets cleaner and better repaired. Waste paper will be burned in salamander cages on wharfs rather than sent to dumps, with households urged to use the devices to curb litter. The program aims to educate residents and enforce the law to reduce street litter and lessen the department’s burden.
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Buseau
Pittsburg
Municipal Journal and
Public Works
Bigelow
B. G. Nicewaner
Nicewaner
Mattie
Highway Department
Suppressed Cries of Chickens Sparked 1791 Ordinance
In Longiun an 1791 city ordinance aimed to quiet street hawkers. A man was jailed ten years for selling chickens that squawked, with a verdict unclear on whether the birds or the vendor caused the disturbance. A rare record shows no man serving a full decade.
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Longiun
Wanted Monsy Teo and the mitten tale
A compilation of brief, humorous vignettes and ad-like snippets from a 19th or early 20th century newspaper page. It covers a short moral anecdote about Ned and his father, a father’s charity, and Ned’s reaction at supper, followed by satirical takes on mail order advice and various quips on love, deception, and everyday life.
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Monsy Teo
Ned
Khin
Planting of Trees How to Avoid Monotony and Hideous
Landscape architect Sit Hate argues streets and boulevards lose beauty with straight rows of trees and fences. He urges guiding vistas, grouping trees in artistic clusters, leaving open spaces for sun and views, and placing observers to preserve scenic values along city streets.
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Sit + Hate
Park and Cemetery
Chicago
Pines Fog
Altes
Signs Urge Clean Streets In Chicago Public Works
Commissioner John Hanbery of Chicago reports first installment of signs ordered to warn the public about violations of the clean street ordinance. The signs urge residents to follow the prescribed “don’ts” and promote a tidier city.
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John Hanbery
Chicago
Chilcago Post
Commissioner to Discuss Car Cleaning Device Proposal
Commissioner Hanberg said he would raise the matter with the street car officer regarding buying a man stationed at the end of each car ring with an appliance to burn the sweep from cars.
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Hanberg
Advertising Ugly Spots Prize Drives City Real Estate Focus
The municipal league of Los Angeles offers prizes for photos of the ugliest spots in the city to show effects on neighborhood property values. Entries may include billboards dilapidated buildings dirty streets or vacant lots. Prizes total 35 dollars with awards of 20 10 and 5 to selected images.
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Municipal League of
Los Angeles
City Beautiful
Los Angeles Times
Where Do Your Dollars Go in Mall Order Era
An analyst estimates Americans spend about a billion dollars annually in four years with city impact owners and homes. A second estimate halves that to 250 million, claiming 12 500 retail dealers fail yearly due to mall order concerns. Every dollar leaves small towns and rural districts, never to return, instead harming home merchants and communities.
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United States
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Tharely
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Mise Brown
Young Bhortleigh
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Pickingog
Eldora Girl
Dee Moines
Freda
Becker, Mayer & Co
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Kier
Kesley
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B. L. Trey
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Mercial
Bureau of Census
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Santa Fe
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Los ‘Angeles
Rya Aday
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