Neat attractive little house with many appealing features
William A. Radford presents a ready made plan for a dream home emphasizing expert planning to realize budget dreams. The design centers a sheltered entrance porch, vestibule, central hall, two bedrooms with large closets, bathroom between, attic access, basement stairs, central rear kitchen with pantry and outside ice opening, dining room 13 by 19 feet, and potential for flexible use. Exterior features include stucco walls, concrete foundation, variegated shingles, and a brick accent above eaves.
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Wife’s Bridge Club
Sanitation of Home Is Kept by Use of Paint
A health official in St. Louis and reports from New York stress paint as a key sanitation method. Painted washable surfaces cut scrubbing and block germs, reducing illness and hospital visits. Floors, bedrooms, kitchens, and baths benefit, while faint odors from paint deter pests like roaches and formaldehyde aids disinfection.
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Mar ©. Starklaff
St. Louis
Starklatt
New York Department of Health
Equipment informs builder on new home items from leaders
Before choosing equipment for the home a builder should study many new items from leading manufacturers. The article notes the features now on the market that builders may find meet their approval and were previously unknown.
Talk Turkey to You Aims for Honest Talk In Louisville
In a Louisville Courier-Journal excerpt a young wife named Louisa learns her husband seeks a serious talk. The mother, anxious and agitated, presses for details while the wife remains nonchalant. The playful line hints at marital strains and blunt conversation to come.
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Mary
Louisaville Courier-Journal
In Vegetable Land String Bean Mockery Exchange
A playful exchange features Miss String Bean declaring beauty while Carrot teases that others are stringing her along. The whimsical dialogue captures a light, garden themed banter between two personified vegetables.
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Miss String Bean
Carrot
Wealth and borrowing rise as health and wealth prosper
A compact, period tone notes that the nation enjoys splendid health and wealth from wise effort while the number of men who borrow ten remains as numerous as ever, highlighting persistent debt alongside prosperity.
Man praised for heroism as a woman misses feat
A man credited with averting a great disaster is complimented on his bravery. A woman expresses she wishes to have seen his feat. He blushes and stammers, then, pointing downward, says, Well, there they be, mum.
Moonlight Nights Debt Discussed At The Desk
In a witty exchange a sarcastic guest urges charging for moonlight nights while the landlord dismisses the idea as fanciful. The dialogue turns to a quip about fog, with the landlord implying no rebate is due for weather obstructions.
Beatrice and Millicent Debate Like A Wrench
In a lively party aside, Beatrice and Millicent exchange quips about a so called wrenchman with circuitous humor. The banter hints at social roles and playful identity without revealing a clear action or outcome.
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Beatrice
Wrench
Millicent
Aged Negro Refutes Time in Narrow Exchange
Dialogue captures a boastful claim about age as a crowd gathers. The aging man insists he is ancient while his friend questions the premise and a stranger teases him about memory and mortality. The scene unfolds with sharp humor and social tension.
Remembered Wife and Wubby Golf Postnuptial Toast
A New Bernian quips about a wedding date tied to a celebrated golf moment. The exchange centers on a 30-foot putt that allegedly sealed the marriage, highlighting local humor and sports lore without graphic detail.
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Wubby
New Bernian
Not Precisely Fortune Tellers of Al Scvtch inep Friends
Jones remarks on Scrivener subjects and close friends as a curious social aside. Smith questions the meaning as conversational banter unfolds in a clipped dialogue.
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Jones
al Scvtchinep
Thin Clothes Oh Very Fat and the Mules Unearth a Tale
A fragmented vignette describes Isobel Plym with thin clothes and a rumored recovery, followed by two mules reacting to an engraved umbrella. Larry and Tarry chatter about footwear and daily life as the scene shifts through disjointed dialogue and vague observations.
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Isobel Plym
Open Season for the Terrapin Prompts Hunters in Pa
Open season on the Pennsylvania red leg terrapin runs until March 15 with a daily limit of five and fifty for the winter. The article sketches terrapin habitat in mountain streams, culinary debates, and notes a broader hunting context including deer, ducks, raccoons, and turkey across counties from Berks to Philadelphia area. The piece praises terrapin flavor and urges careful harvesting to protect the species.
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Pennsylvania
Fish Commission
Alleghenies
Blue Ridge
Barnegat Bay
Great Bay
Egg Harbor Bay
Susquehanna Flat
Elk River
Ocean City
Canada
Philadelphia
Virginia
Chester County
Berks County
Dentist Offers Five Year Guarantee for Teeth
Australians prize longevity a Sidney dentist offered an eighty year old patient a five year guarantee on new false teeth. The patient refused to begin work until receiving a ten year guarantee as a condition.
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Sidney
Windowless blocks discussed for office buildings
Building architects weigh plans for windowless offices to cut costs while providing ventilation and light by modern methods. The proposal focuses on enclosed courts and alternative lighting and air systems to replace direct exterior windows.
Estate of Phares L. Garner Obituary Administration Granted
Estate of Phares L Garner late of Warwick township Lancaster county Penna deceased Letters of administration granted to undersigned all indebted persons to make payment and those with claims to present them promptly for settlement to the undersigned residing in Warwick township Williams Garner Lititz R D 4 Administrator
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Phares L. Garner
Warwick Township
Lancaster County
Penna
Williams
Garner Lititz
R. D
Leventine C. Zartman
Lititz Borough
Executor's Notice in Lititz Estate for Leventine C Zartman
Estate of Leventine C Zartman of Lititz Borough issues letters testamentary. All debts owed must be settled promptly to Jos. B. Wissler, attorney, residing in Lititz Borough.
Swamp Scene from A Northern Countryside Highlighted
Rosalind Richars describes a swamp with glowing cranberry vines huckleberry rushes and scarlet black alder berries. A pond lies beyond the velvet swamp with wind ruffling the water and tawny rushes nearby, creating a vivid natural tableau.
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Rosalind Richars
First American bottles shaped by molten glass shears
Fragmentary OCR notes describe early bottle making with molten glass and shears. The text hints at quaint metal melts and rough necks, mentioning unshaped mouths and rough edges produced during the glass cutting while molten, reflecting primitive bottle manufacture.
Early Neumes Shape Medieval Musical Notation
A brief note explains that from the end of the Fourth to the Twelfth century neumes formed a system of notation without staves. They served as accent marks over syllables, using dots, dashes and hieroglyphic shapes, gradually evolving into modern notes.
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William A. Radford
Prairie Avenue
Chicago
Suk
Batt
Reet
West
Jen
Larry
Robert B. Vale
Phila. Ledger
Hammer Creek
Here
Jesse Pannebecker
Lancaster
Jos. B. Wissler
Long & Co
W. H. Muth
Lititz
Snavely
Doan
Nee Foater-Milburn Co., Mfg. Chem
Buffalo
U.S. Pat
Br. J. H. Kellogg
Kelloge
Battle Creel Sanitarium
Manheim, Pa
Spacht
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