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Newspaper
Duchesne Courier
Location
Duchesne, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1923
Page
5
The piece argues that true resolutions require a definite plan and past action rather than mere wishes. It stresses using the past tense to declare completed changes, warns against vague future aims, and urges steady, stepwise progress toward a goal with persistent effort.
A fragmentary notice hints at a local event about inventions and a list of unidentifiable innovations. Names, dates, and places are unreadable but suggest a community interest in new devices. The text remains unclear but signals a public call for invention-related activity.
Grate Strickler Dawson reflects on the old year as it ends a quiet, hopeful note. The speaker treasures friendships and hard earned gifts while watching the year depart in white garments and leaving room for new promises at the door.
Detroit News urges readers to start 1924 with handwritten visits to the elderly and shut ins. The piece praises hospitality, advising cheerful, short calls with small gifts like red roses to brighten aged lives and combat loneliness.
An old New Year custom noted in 1923 involved groups preparing surprise baskets filled with fruit nuts candies and a jar of jam or pudding. They delivered the baskets branded with ribbons to less fortunate neighbors while wishing them a happy New Year.
A nostalgic sketch from 1923 portrays a postal carrier on the D L & W line as a patient but slow messenger. The piece highlights his conversational pauses and street corner greetings while noting his helpful acts like taking deliveries, buying stamps, and delivering parcels, despite delays.
Designer explains a six room Colonial bungalow with no second story, a dining room access to bedrooms, and careful wall treatments. It features a 15 by 10 foot living room with a fireplace and built in bookcases, folding French doors to a 13 by 16 dining room, practical kitchen layout, two bedrooms, a sleeping porch, and simple Essex Salem furniture styles. Exterior uses wooden siding or stucco with a wide porch and old fashioned lanterns.
A new attendant, formerly employed at a large drapery shop, joins a spiritualist circle. A client asks the medium to contact Mr Green and the attendant asks for his Christian name, noting the man died recently and requesting the latest shades of Greens.
A visitor from the East pompously asks for fountain pens in a local stationery store. The young clerk dismissively replies that ink is the main product, while she settles herself and notes the scene at Kansas City Stax.
Rural social researchers at Ithaca urge towns to value quality of life over rapid growth. An essay by Dr. Vaughan cautions that population booms can erode civic virtue and suggests investment in education and culture to enrich life. The piece also notes housing strains in U.S. cities and shifts to consolidated schools.
A report by the Horse Association of America tests show pulling easier on rails than asphalt and granite blocks. Tests by E Y Collins and others indicate concrete and granite pavements reduce energy use for loads, with dirt roads least efficient. Separate note from Bowling Green Ky describes sewer connections via natural flow and limestone geology.
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