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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1935
Page
21
Ohio advances roadside beautification under State Highway Department head Dallas Dupre Jr with a 1933 34 CWA funded start and 1934 state grants. About 100000 in state funds plus 78000 federal grant and 385000 in contracts support planting, ditch work, seeding, and landscape improvement across 12 divisions despite drought.
Interior work at the L. B. Bean Restaurant 120 West Union Street has been completed. Old partitions were removed a six foot rear extension added. New closets booths plastering floor plumbing two sinks installed.
The piece notes tests showing food tastes better when in good humor. It urges remodeling and repainting a dull dining room to improve mood and discourage indigestion.
The speaker outlines one major purpose to replace or recreate native plantings destroyed, prioritizing prevention of soil erosion. He notes this heals landscape scars from road work and adds trees shrubs and vines to improve safety and practicality along the highway.
Emmett Parker of Parker Bros. Co touts the new Weetinghour Streamline refrigerator with a tray that ejects ice cubes at the press of two levers and a revolving shelf that swings and stores tall bottles. The unit features a triple storage compartment, door tray, dial temperature selector, fast-freezing froster and automatic interior light.
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