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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1955
Page
7
Low growing annuals are increasingly used to outline walks and borders. Alyssum and Ageratum provide compact heights and bright colors, thriving with four to six hours of sun. Space them six inches apart for a continuous border and mix their blue, purple, and white tones with nearby perennials.
Civil Defense officials suggest staying on the first floor of a frame house could cut atomic exposure by about 50 percent. For mass sheltering, they propose dirt trenches along main roads covered with boards as an improvised solution.
Instructions from Carl Dreher in Bluebook explain lumber pricing and grading in plain terms. The piece covers nominal versus actual dimensions, board feet pricing, yard vs mill work, and how to distinguish softwoods from hardwoods with a simple hardness test.
A reader outlines lawn installation steps including soil prep with peat moss manure and ash, cyanamid weed control, then seeding and light watering. Advice covers soil moisture, rolling, timing, and mower overhauls, noting October is near for seeding.
Page seven of The Daily Review dated Saturday August 27 955 presents local briefs. Includes community notices, short updates, and society items typical of a mid century newspaper page.
More than fifty members gathered last Thursday in the David Rosens Mohr drive patio for a garden meeting of the Southern Alameda County Branch of the American Begonia Society. Acting chairman Vincent Peck urged bringing potted plants to the September 15 Hayward high school cafeteria meeting and inviting neighbors to view an exhibit. The annual begonia show planned for August 26 and 27 was cancelled by the club executive board.
The note explains that when people say 2 by 4s they usually mean standard framing lumber. It highlights their most popular use in building walls and supporting structures in houses.
Mr and Mrs Harry T Murphy move after 12 years in Hayward to a two acre poultry farm in Santa Rosa. They will run two thousand laying birds with a modern cage system. Mrs Murphy resigns as Alameda County Farm Bureau Home Department chair and as federation club treasurer. He earlier served as county farm bureau president and state delegate, and as director of Hayward Poultry Producer's credit union. Both active in Hayward Acres Improvement Club and members of San Lorenzo chapter Western Star Masonic lodge.
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