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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1925
Page
6
Advice by W A Radford on designing efficient small homes. The piece promotes careful planning and proportion for beauty, detailing a five room plan with a foyer, living room, dining room, kitchen, pantry, and bedrooms with ample closet space. It emphasizes lighting, ventilation, and practical layouts like a windowed work table and refrigerator placement for easy access and visibility.
A poorly lighted home feels uncomfortable and dampens happiness in residence. Homeowners should budget well for lighting, with a $10,000 house costing about $500 in lighting, not the minimal $150 to $200. Hiring an illuminating engineer can cut fixture counts, wiring labor, and improve efficiency, boosting comfort through better lighting alongside heating and plumbing.
Redwood outlasts most woods due to natural preservatives that resist rot decay and insects. It remains stable when seasoned, showing no warping swelling or shrinking, and is ideal for rustic outdoor uses like summer houses lodges porches and exterior finishes.
A short guide notes that door sills and floor areas near heavily used doorways wear quickly and collect dirt. It urges painting or varnishing worn finishes early to keep surfaces clean with minimal effort, preventing larger repairs and preserving a room’s overall look.
Exterior upkeep stresses storm sash porch and steps as key paint targets this season. Clean repair and three coats on porch floors woodwork and steps. doors painted or varnished per type. consider lighter tint for storm sash to reduce stark white. Remove screens brush, repaint frames then store with retreatment in mind.
In a western city Brown & Co. staffer John Delmar is banished to cold storage a temporary humiliation that sparks a plan to win Nellie West. Delmar’s quick action saves Richard Brown after a severe injury, earning him a promotion to manager and a future with Nellie.
This piece explains autumn or fall as the third season, noting regional naming differences between England and North America. It covers astronomical dates, popular month spans in the US and Britain, and how the term fall also appears in phrases describing seasonal goods and agriculture.
Pathfinder Magazine notes the phrase apple of the eye may stem from the pupil being pictured as a ball. It symbolizes something deeply cherished. The term appears repeatedly in Scripture such as Psalm 17 8 and Deuteronomy 32 10.
A man arrives with a horse and, addressing the hostler, asks for the animal to be removed and cared for until morning, promising a pecuniary reward. The groom interrupts with a foreigner requesting to speak to the host. The humor centers on inflated phrasing and a misdirection.
The passage lauds artists who possess a distinct faculty that conveys unique pleasure not found elsewhere. Though not wielding great fame or authority, they enrich general culture and deserve affectionate, diligent interpretation by those who feel their charm.
An automotive column by ERWIN GREER from Greer College of Automotive Engineering in Chicago urges owners to properly adjust and clean headlights. It covers reflectors, bulb choices, lens care, and a step by step method to aim beams using a wall guide at 25 feet, warning against glare and poor illumination.
The text describes leakage around intake valve stems causing power loss and misfiring at low throttle. It proposes remedies using lubricant retaining grooves on the valve stems filled with graphite paste or stuffing boxes at guide ends. The stuffing boxes offer a more permanent fix by allowing the nut to compress packing if the guide wears, preventing leakage.
The text discusses parking on hills and how your car may move without shifting between forward and reverse. It suggests using brakes and cautions about interpreting No Parking signs, noting they may not always forbid parking in every case.
Heavy blocks cut and banded with iron designed to mount curbstones on trucks. Each block has a ring for hanging when not in use. Illustration in Popular Science Monthly by G Bender explains their use.
A motorist contributor notes that dealers will not replace springs broken at the center bolt hole, the common failure point. He warns spring clips bend under dual-direction stress, so nuts must be drawn tight with a proper wrench and checked periodically for looseness despite lock washers.
Motorists killed by stalling on tracks as trains approach. Advice urges shifting to second or low before crossing to ensure momentum and avoid stalling in rough track conditions.
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