04 Feb 1914
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Newspaper
Edgefield Advertiser
Location
Edgefield, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1914
Page
1
The piece argues that the phrase City Beautiful misleads about city planning. It stresses transit, sanitation, parks, and health facilities as primary goals, not mere ornament, urging broader, practical reform and cautioning against narrowing aims to aesthetics.
An Australian paper warns that tall plane trees in city streets during hot summers cause coughing and epidemics from inhaling their emanations. Authorities and historians note the noxious nature of the plane while nurserymen suffer from contact with mild looking Upas trees.
The New York Post reports that creosote from wood block pavements in Manhattan causes tracking mud into hotels and businesses. William H. Edwards, street cleaning commissioner, asks commissioners of public parks to urge contractors to stop “oiling the streets.”
Notice to all heirs creditors or interested parties that Dr Geo M C F Mood applies for final discharge as Administrator of the estate of Mrs Emma Bettis Mood deceased. Show cause at Edgefield Court House South Carolina February 14 1914 11 o clock a m. W T Kinnaird J P C E C 8 C January 12 1914.
W T Kinnaird probate judge cites kin creditors to appear January 26 in Edgefield Court of Probate to show cause why administration should not be granted to J W Thurmond for Mary J Thurmond deceased end effects. Published January 7 1914 Edgefield Advertiser.
Notice states the purchaser has bought the Johnson Brick Warehouse near the old depot site and will manage Hulls and Meal, TM s Coal and Brick, plus another house nearby in charge J.
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