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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1925
Page
15
State Fire Marshal L. Topping urges a paint up and clean up campaign to brighten homes and business properties in West Virginia. The plan includes low cost access to detailed home plans and emphasizes removing rubbish to curb unsightly clutter.
A fire marshal notes that when a man takes pride in painting his home his interest likely expands to fixing porches roofs chimneys and worn shutters. He suggests interior upgrades can bring more comfort to the homeowner’s family.
Home builders distinguish plate glass from ordinary window glass. Both originate from similar raw materials but differ in manufacture. Window glass is blown while plate glass is cast into solid sheets, yielding a finer, flaw-free, more attractive product with polishing.
A well known sculptor and professor Alfonso Iannelli discusses dressing a house to match its architectural period. He links wall texture to design era and traces harmony between building, walls and people’s attire. The article notes his months of stucco research and observations on period dress. Florida is humorously noted for lacking bananas to sing of.
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