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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1928
Page
6
Planning emphasizes placing back yard facing rooms as the garden’s best view. Avoid kitchen-front exposure to driveways to reduce noise and fumes. If possible, split living areas from kitchen with a wall or place the drive away from windows to keep a large lawn unbroken and usable.
A rundown of making garages and detached structures stylish through decorative details like hardware trimming window boxes and awnings. Emphasizes that even simple touches can add harmony with the home and landscape, reducing the perception of a blank or unattractive garage.
The article notes several cities in California Georgia Indiana Minnesota Ohio North Carolina Texas and Wisconsin planning larger elementary and high school grounds of five to ten acres or more. It cites costs from 500 to 18000 per acre with Chicago paying up to 30000 per acre. Sixty cities pursue five or more acres for elementary schools and larger parcels for high schools.
A practical guide advising men buying homes to compare properties by family needs. Visualize routine life in every season, including cooking, cleaning, work, school, and play, to ensure the house fits long term family activity.
The Cleveland News notes Kent Ohio lit its Great White Way on Christmas, praising the modernization as progress. Officials push electrification as a standard for towns large and small, urging northern Ohio municipalities to follow Kent’s example.
The Building Age survey reports average costs across the nation. A single house is estimated at 3502 dollars, a double house at 7018 dollars, and multi family housing at 45080 dollars.
Ohio State extension specialists urge pruning as soon as apples are harvested and continue through winter. Do not delay for milder spring weather. Dense trees hinder spraying and reduce fruit quality, ease of picking, and production. grape and peach pruning should wait for milder winter weather to avoid cold damage.
New York experiment station at Geneva says cherry leaf spot begins with fallen leaves. Remove by plowing under in fall or early spring to stop infection, then apply lime sulfur spray at petal fall and about two weeks later, with a third spray after harvest. Repeated leaf drop weakens trees and can kill them.
A Farm Journal writer suggests melting laundry soap into a thick jelly to coat young tree bark. On sunny, breezy days, wash trees to a height beyond rabbit reach, push soil aside briefly, rinse, and return soil. Properly applied, rabbits will stay away and the bark gains a healthy look.
Cherry trees are best propagated by budding and should be done in early spring before sap flow. Sweet and sour cherries commonly use Mazzard stock with Mahaleb as hardier but weaker grafts. Grafting black cherry on red may fail to form a strong union. Budding on Mazzard grows quickly. nurserymen may supply seedling stock for late spring budding in June or July.
The piece highlights Lititz pork and pretzel shops, a trap factory, tobacco and fruit farming in Lancaster County. It mentions Captain John Sutter, Lititz Springs, and Warwick Township’s diversified agriculture including dairy, poultry, and a 109 acre apple peach orchard with celery and beekeeping ventures.
A spring task in vineyards is repairing trellises. Replace missing staples and tighten wires without pinching. Trim loose posts and replace rotted ones. High growth and wind pressure strain the trellis. careful stringing with square or granny knots helps secure the vines.
A Youth’s Companion sample on an odd spelling trend for potato using ghoughphth eight teenu. The note claims the taste remains the same if cooked properly.
The excerpt celebrates joy as the driving force behind universal motion. It likens joy to a train spring and a wheel that frees flowers, suns, and distant worlds, portraying happiness as a cosmic, poetic power shaping all things.
A Woman's Companion piece questions whether padding has seen a true breakthrough akin to the leap from tallow candles to electric lighting, suggesting improvements in clothing padding may lag behind modern advances.
No clear event or facts. fragmented OCR text discusses Chinese and Japanese eating habits versus American and European peoples with references to food scarcity and longevity. No identifiable persons or organizations. no verifiable event or outcome.
Racing pigeons complete a short journey with speeds exceeding a mile per minute aided by the wind.
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