Model wage earners homes aid city welfare goals
The Metropolitan Life Insurance company has built model wage earners' homes housing 2,125 families in Greater New York. Social welfare workers praise these experiments as a potential solution to city congestion and aid in making rents affordable for modest wage earners.
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Peter Rabbit Tracks Snow to Learn About Neighbors
Peter Rabbit enjoys light snow and follows animal tracks to learn about the Green Forest neighbors. He notes Whitefoot the Wood Mouse and birds, then spots Reddy Fox and Jumper the Hare footprints before deciding their area is risky and changing course.
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Wood Mouse
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Hare
Ivy and the clinging vine in male life advice
A metaphorical essay urges avoiding clingy partners who restrain ambitious men. It argues ivy damages strong walls, recommends clinging to ruins or stage scenery instead, and warns feminists and lovers alike that possessive tenderness can curb growth and independence.
Deep Earth Heat Proposal Stirs Heated Debate
The piece surveys rising coal costs in frigid weather and examines Sir Charles Parsons proposal to dig a 12 mile deep shaft to tap earth's interior heat for power. It notes skeptics and boosters alike, drawing parallels with Columbus and Marconi to illustrate bold invention.
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Christopher Columbus
Signor Marconi
Atlantic Ocean
Rockefeller plan to banish slums with model tenements in Manhattan
Rockefeller Jr proposes urban reform by building 82 families in one Manhattan building with cross ventilation and 70 feet of lawn. The project follows a Bayonne experiment housing 149 families in five buildings. Each typical floor holds 14 apartments four to six rooms, with two bathrooms in a six room unit.
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Rockefeller
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Bayonne
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Cleveland Traffic Plans Aim to Spend 500000 on Safety
The Cleveland Automobile Club urges city authorities to allocate 500000 over two years for 100 extra traffic officers, signal towers, and more street lights. The study pins accidents on congestion and poor lighting rather than speed, blaming narrow streets and careless driving, with emphasis on enforcing accountability for all road users.
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Ohio
Automobile Club
Secretary Hoover
Washington
War on Mountain Lions Show Catnip Lure and Deer Rise
A department of agriculture bulletin touts oil of catnip to lure and kill mountain lions as a safer method than hiding in dens. It notes 77 lions slain in Arizona and scarce big cats in Montana, with deer herds expanding. Also references Dawes plan, Trotzky, and U S policy toward Japan amid European and German political shifts.
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Department of Agriculture
Department
Biological Survey
Arizona
Montana
Solomon
Saith
Peter Follows Strange Tail Trail to Laughing Brook
Peter chases a queer furrow in the snow that accompanies round footprints. He reasons the trail is made by a tail and follows it toward a steep bank and Laughing Brook, where the trail ends without any crossing signs.
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Jumper
Hare
Horoscope for Christmas Eve 1924 and outlook for 1925
Mercury is favorable yet Saturn the sun and Jupiter are adverse. The reading urges closing old accounts and preparing for 1925 by erasing balances. The moon in Scorpio encourages constructive effort, with warning of a sudden temperature change and a fierce end of month storm.
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Saturn
Mars
McClure
Bogey Solving Time by Ruth Von Phul Puzzle Champion
Ruth Von Phul, renowned cross word puzzle champion, achieves an eight minute solving time for the daily crossword puzzle. The headline highlights her swift performance and standing in the puzzle community.
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Ancient New England city crossword hints list
By MRS T W COOPMAN a compilation of crossword style clues and answers includes terms for weights livestock trade and common prefixes with down clues such as bestows back dim pest frozen seat arches compensated indisposed and readers misshapen among others the list mixes everyday objects and abstract notions aiming at a puzzle solution set.
Doctor Dolittle Dodges Foxhounds in Spinney Escape
In a wooded hollow the Doctor hides foxes inside his coat to thwart huntsmen led by Sir William Peabody. The throng surrounds a spinney as hounds rush in, and Dolittle is knocked down by the pack while vixen cubs slip away. Tomorrow promises the Doctor will rescue the vixen's family and borrow a guinea.
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John Dolittle
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Galloway
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Radio Dealers of New Zealand Licensing Proposal
A bill proposes licensing radio dealers in New Zealand and uses a portion of the collected fees to fund broadcasting agencies. The measure seeks regulatory control and support for national broadcasting.
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New Zealand
France Made Lace Gains Popularity Here
Machinery produced lace from France is increasingly worn in the country, signaling a shift in fashion and textile import influence.
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France
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