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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1929
Page
6
William A. Radford explains home building principles highlighting steady, practical improvements. The article outlines a six room two story design 28 by 24 with ship-lapped siding sun room balcony living and dining rooms breakfast nook two upstairs bedrooms a bath and a playroom potential as a small bedroom.
Advice on financing a home urges careful planning beyond a cash down payment. It cautions against overinvestment, stresses budgeting for land, materials, and running costs, and recommends consulting a trusted expert to avoid money and worry. It notes not to exceed three times annual income for home value and to avoid paying more than rent equivalents.
The guide suggests using stripes of rising lines in the wallpaper to visually add height. It advises running paper from wall to ceiling with a single shade matching the wall background, avoiding dark tones that create obvious changes between wall and ceiling.
Spring house painting benefits from two coats and a skilled painter. A two-coat job lasts longer, hides dirt, and proves more economical over time. Labor costs are high for application, so choosing quality paint and a good painter ensures a durable, satisfactory finish ready for spring and next year.
Tile offers beauty and simplicity with durable coloring perfect for interior walls floors and exterior surfaces. Fired clay tiles resist heat and fire, providing a practical, lasting material for furniture grouping and versatile rooms both in and outside the house.
A fashion column riffs on how movie stars order tailored coats without measurements and the public contemplates wardrobe spending. It notes Paris styling ideas like curls of false hair and rowed roses, explains ensemble meaning, and muses on matching accessories to a velvet wrap while hinting at color names and language quirks in fashion.
Border trim features prominently in a dress description noting the border cuts, its economical use, and how silk fabric 40 inches wide is bordered along one side. The frock uses the border length for a bow, while gray and white blocks of printed silk create a pleasing effect. A black ribbonlike border with yellow flowers provides a bold contrast to the youthful lines of the garment.
Article describes making protective covers for flour bag mats to guard tables from heat. Use of asbestos mats fades. new covers stitched from empty flour bags. Steps: peel, wash, cut two cloth pieces, baste, trim, hem, scallop with mercerized thread, optional dye to match linens.
The season showcases blouses as key ensemble pieces with diagonal seaming crepe options, soft necklines via scarves and jabots, and coordinated accessories. Colorful outfits feature mustard yellows with straw hats, crepe fringes, and complete with matching skirts, gloves, hosiery, and shoes for formal day wear. Parisian nets, sequined accents, and turban hats accompany lace and voile variations for dressy daytime events.
The article describes a gray double layered net afternoon frock with a full uneven skirt and long sleeves. A matching horsehair hat features a single large lavender flower placed to one side, completing the elegant costume.
Martha, recently widowed, feels secure in her new home with Dick and two children but learns of his plan to marry Elsie Barth. Marie worries about a future with Elsie and Nina hopes for happiness, as Nina accepts Will Boyd’s marriage proposal and a move to a larger house, while Martha adjusts to life with a growing family.
A Kansas City Star brief notes that George, a busy Scarritt Building attorney with a growing family and practice, left town for Hot Springs to recuperate after a month of illness in his household. His wife explains the trip as health related and that everyone is recovering.
A city resident known for wit recounts a chatty visit to a coal office where neighbors listened to anecdotes with dubious elements. The crowd recalls another incident told by a different speaker, prompting George C. to quip that the first storyteller never had a chance with such a crowd.
The term humanism names a Renaissance phase favoring Latin and Greek classics as the path to broad culture. It often frames education as a study of humanities and opposes narrow focuses on natural science, linking to the Oxford movement that posits man as the measure of all things.
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