America leads in home ownership and residential building share
The Common Brick Manufacturers association notes the United States tops in residential construction. In 1925 residential space accounted for about 62 percent of building, with 34 percent in 1930 and high percentages in the following years, while commercial, industrial, and educational sectors trailed as smaller shares.
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United States
Common Brick Manufacturers’ Association
America
Owners of Property Must Work Together
A Chicago Post editorial argues that property owners should form and join improvement associations to set standards for whole streets. It contends definite, streetwide policies raise property values and encourage new work, noting progress slows when only a few act while others wait.
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Chicago Post
Good Building Rules for a Worthy Home
A caution to build well so future generations may take pride in the work. Emphasizes planning, material choices, and honest skilled workmanship over extravagance. A pool residence should be simple and dignified rather than ornate. a modest, well planned home is preferable to a poorly designed mansion.
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Jitgn Herald
Decorative Values in Roofing and Color Harmony
An article argues decorative values from roof color choices should harmonize with surroundings to protect and conserve. It stresses matching tones with trees and horizon, noting bold roofs contrast with greenery, while softer silhouettes are achieved by careful color selection.
Kansas City Real Estate Board Forms Downtown Improvement Committees
The Kansas City Real Estate Board appointed committees to tackle downtown improvement. Goals include clearing unsightly vacant properties, cleaning unused store rooms, banning overhead signs, and removing sidewall displays. The move follows a Detroit convention appeal for urban orderliness by H. I. Ennitz.
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Kansas City
Islve
Yan
Campaten
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Detroit
H. I. Enniz
Asociation
Tris Ideal Flower Trends Cited by USDA Guidance
The United States Department of Agriculture urges home flower gardeners to use disease and pest prevention, noting testing and resistant varieties can protect plants in varied climates and improve garden resilience.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Popularity of the Fern Has Not Waned
Ella Grant Wilson notes ferns charm with varied leaf shapes and names such as shoestring rattlesnake and maidenhair. She suggests fern varieties like elbodium fit sun rooms or interior spaces, thriving with water and warmth.
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Thoreau
F. R. Pierson
Tarrytown
N. Y
Ella Grant Wilson
The
Detroit News
Why Does Whip Crack and Other Puzzlers
A collection of curious questions on natural phenomena and science puzzles. It asks why a whip crack creates sound, explores heat and glowworms, striped carnivores, blue moths, glass behavior, salt in water, and references Prof Ira Rewson.
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Ira Rewson
How Cats Land on Their Feet From Slow Motion Study
A slow motion film shows a cat in fall extends hind legs and tail, draws in forelegs, twists the body to rotate forequarters ahead of hindquarters, then reverses twist to bring hindquarters forward, enabling a feet-first landing. The sequence explains the cat’s righting reflex.
Why She Didn't Get Off on Italian Trains
An American woman traveling to Florence misspoke stops on Italian railways. She asked staff and was misdirected, learning only at the final through train to Rome that the next stop was seven, after which she returned to Florence to discover the station name mispronounced as Florenzee.
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Italy
Florence
Rome
Florenzee
Capper
Why It Is Called Kitty in Poker Terms
The text explains the origin of the poker term kitty. It traces an old word kist meaning chest and cites Pearson's Magazine. It notes money boxes and merchant coffers as related uses and traces how pool or kitty terms evolved through corruptions to today’s usage.
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Pearson’s Magazine
London
Dad
Fireplace smoke problem in old house description
A fragment describes fireplace smoke issues with chimneys too low or throat set back and wrong proportion between chimney rise and fireplace opening causing smoke. Mentions incorrect proportions and smoke backing up.
Prodigal Son and the Father’s Embrace of Sinners
A sermon-like meditation on Luke 16 20 and the prodigal parable. The father’s compassion is shown as generous grace not earned by works. The prodigal returns from sin and is clothed in the robe of salvation, with music and feasting symbolizing divine joy.
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Paul
Athens
Christ
Filan
Vacationers and visitors spread across Washington and nearby towns
Mrs. Jane Currans spends her vacation in Washington, D C. Ephie Hawkins visits Clarksville while Stover and Charlestion couples spend weekends in several towns. Luther Pine and son Floyd dine with Sam Michael. Dozens of relatives travel to Grandview Paris Oliver Marshall and Five Points areas for weekends and evenings.
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Jane Currans
Washington, D.C
Ephie Hawkins
Clarksville
Sarah Carney
Giles Carney
Flossie
Paris
Maggie Lawless
Shelby Redman
Terre Haute
Stover
Charleston
Rocky Branch
W. D. Downs
Grace Terrel
Thomas Devaney
Chicago
Ray Buser
Felix Ferrer Ed Payton
Martinsville
Milt Redman
Luther Pine
Floyd
Sam Michael
Olen Hard
Charley Langford
Castlefinn
Marshall
Walter Terrel
Betty
Will Downs
Henry Smittkamp
Grandview
West Liberty Social Notes Mention Mrs Curtright and Family
Mrs Alva Curtright and her daughter Wanda visited Mrs Isaac Marrs on Wednesday. Claude Newman took a business trip to Indianapolis Saturday. Mrs Alice Newman spent the first day of the week with relatives.
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Eliza
Claude Newman
Sylvan Curtright
Walter Cox
Irma Hinkle
Iva Curtright
Lester McConchie
Oliver Marcella McConchie
Oliver
Eliza Newman
Bruce Clapp
Frank Hinkle
Silas
Carlton Reed
Nick Reed
Near
Five Points
Alva Curtright
Wanda
Isaac Marrs
Indianapolis
Alice Newman
Tiny English Almanac Sells at Auction in London for 25 Dollars
An English almanac from 1443 sold at London auction for 25 dollars. The fragment measures about an inch by seven eighths of an inch. experts debate if it is the smallest printed item or if smaller Bible copies exist.
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London
Stellar system diameter estimate from naval observatory
The naval observatory states our stellar system spans about 300000 light years in diameter. It notes the spiral regulae as other systems widely separated, with the nearest possibly nearly four million light years away.
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Naval Observatory
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Stark School For
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Wabash
V. A. Smith
Marshall, Illinois
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Iiols
Chas. M. Sullins
Frigidaire
Nash Electrical Service CO
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the Marshall Shoe Doctor
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