Splendid Farm Home Design Promotes Affordable Comfort
The article promotes a five room farm house design by William A. Radford providing free advice to readers. It highlights u s department of agriculture plans for compact, modern farm homes with sleeping porch as a feature. It notes cost, labor, and material factors vary locally and advocates careful planning before building.
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William A. Radford
Prairie Avenue
Chi
United States Department of Agriculture
Farmhouse plan with sleeping porch and screened kitchen porch
A detailed description outlines a 36 by 28 foot main house plus a 20 by 18 foot kitchen and porch projection. Four rooms, a wing, dining room, and two bedrooms are on one floor with a large living area, a connected dining room, and a sleeping porch usable from both bedrooms. The design emphasizes farm practicality and easy water access.
Parcel Post Opens Between Siam and United States
The Siamese director general of Posts and Telegraphs notified the American consulate at Bangkok that parcel post service between Siam and the United States via Hongkong-Pacific began October 10, 1918. Rates: 0 stanga per parcel up to one pound, 40 stangs for each additional pound, with a maximum weight of 11 pounds.
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Posts and Telegraphs
Bangkok
New York Times
Siam
United States
Greenhorn From the Hub Lights and Laughter
A Boston man staying in a southern hotel learns the local joke about modern heat powered wake up calls. The porter explains that guests simply press a button at the bed to be called in the morning.
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Greenhorn
Boston
Boston ‘Transcript
Testa ment Mischief at Minister's Home
Little John and his mother visit the minister. John touches a Testament and hears a warning that it is God’s book. A week later he asks why God does not come and take his book, implying a comic or puzzled reaction to the sacred object.
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John
God
To Own One's Own Home Means Ac quirement of a Certain Standing
A historical excerpt argues home ownership elevates a person in the community, marking them as dependable and self respecting. It laments renters and unrest among the masses, urging a push to increase homebuilding as patriotic and fiscally prudent, with a forecast of thousands more families entering homes by 1910.
Old wells repurposed to chill pub fountains
A Western city used abandoned wells to cool drinking water for a pub fountain. Water from the main ran through a coil pipe placed below the water line in the well, transferring heat to the cold well water and producing cooler water at the fountain. The device works best for intermittent fountains operated by a lever.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
Unique Horticultural Club Promotes Gardening and Exhibitions
Takoma Park Washington D C hosts a 140 member horticultural club with half specialists from the United States Department of Agriculture. It aims to promote flower culture, home beautification, and town improvements while holding flower and vegetable contests and cooperative purchases of seeds bulbs plants fertilizer and garden implements. Educational meetings occur regularly and this year 23 prizes including two loving cups and eleven gold and city medals plus a savings account will be awarded for best vegetable gardens. Town Plants 900 Trees New Bedford Mass reports setting out 800 trees this spring and claims a high tree-to-street-mileage ratio, part of the American Forestry association drive for memorial trees for service members with the slogan A Flower in Every Home.
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Unique Horticultural Club
Takoma Park
D. C
United States Department of Agriculture
New Bedford
Mass
American Forestry Association of Washington
Learning to Be Miserable Blessings for the Happy Folk
Essay excerpt extols childlike cheer and generosity. It urges all to preserve cheerful dispositions by putting their best into helping others, celebrating smiles and bright faces as natural sustenance. A quoted exchange frames the moral appeal to kindness.
Onions for Insomnia Cure Advice
A short old fashioned health tip recommends eating raw onions at the last meal to combat insomnia. It urges a thorough trial lasting a week or two rather than a single attempt.
Forgery Plot in Federal Prison Uncovered at Leavenworth
Chicago reports a far reaching counterfeit scheme from Fort Leavenworth where 25 inmates printed 1000 subtreasury checks worth 100 each and forged private company checks, aided by prison staff. The operation collapsed after arrests led by secret service agents Drautbergs and counterparts exposing ringleaders including Robert Jones and others, with collateral arrests in New York and St Louis and bonds set at 10000 each.
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Chicago
Fort Leavenworth
Peter Arautaberg
WG. Harper
Thomas J. Porter
United States
Secret Service
United Fruit Company of
New Orleans
Drauteberg
Robert Jones
Jones
Drautzberg
Hum Street
Arthur Matheson
North Marshfield Avenue
Alfonso Jones
Joe Wilson
New York
Ralph Waserbers
Meutenant
Leavenworth
Eugene marble worker reports stolen unmarked headstone
Eugene resident E C Lake, a marble worker, said his salesrooms lacked a door and he believed a thief took an unmarked headstone to use for a future grave decoration. Police were notified after the theft.
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Eugene
Ore
E. C. Lake
Lake
Preacher Kills Bluejay During Sermon in Sandersville
In Sandersville Georgia pastor W A Wray halted a Sunday morning sermon to fire a shotgun at a bluejay that had been buzzed around the church auditorium. In Portland Maine a woman nicknamed the mystery Indy sought help from Mayor Clarke, filing thirty seven applications in thirty hours to locate her husband.
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Sandersville
W. A. Wray
the Baptist Church
Portland
Indy
Clarke
Good Roads Experimental Program On Highway Damage
The bureau of public roads and division of road materials test and research will study impact damage to highway pavements from various transportation units. Four factors speed height of fall type used and weight distribution will be examined with motor and horse drawn vehicles to guide traffic regulation and pavement design. A national chamber of commerce team aids data collection with a questionnaire sent to motor truck manufacturers.
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Bureau of Public Roads
Department of Agriculture
Division of
National Aubile Chamber of Commerce
Bureau
Good Roads and Highway Economies in 1914 Report
A joint congressional committee's 1914 highway economies report notes eight cent per ton mile savings when dirt roads become durable class. It cites 1057 federal aid road statements approved by May 1 for 10,580 miles at 12 million dollars, and proposes 40 million dollars for trunk highways. Cows benefit from pasture at night. roads reflect community condition. urging more durable roads nationwide.
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Joint Congressional Committee
Secretary of Agriculture
Improved roads and motor trucks will cut transportation costs
The article urges boosting road improvements as essential to cheaper transport, noting trucks replace horse power, supplement rail, and that wartime truck use highlighted road limits. It cites the federal road program, a potential $500 million annual outlay, continuous highway systems, and 45 million in truck allocations via the agriculture department to states.
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Thean
Iuch
Lkely
We ‘Y of Agriculture
Medway
War Department
Congress
Post Office
Department of Age
Oil and Tires Deterioration Warning for Garages
Oil and gasoline harm tires, soaking them causes swelling and eventual failure. Grease and oil damage tire sidewalls, so store spare tires with covers and keep floors clean to prevent accidents. Exercise great care around garages to avoid spills and contact with tires.
Avoiding Oil Fouling by Piston Groove Drilled Holes
The article details a method to reduce spark plug fouling from oil without new rings. A piston is centered in a lathe, a groove is cut in the skirt, and eight to ten holes are drilled around the groove at the top and angled upward. The groove serves as an oil wiper and the holes drain and lubricate the wrist pin and rod.
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Tecome F
Foot Brake Adjustment Idea Highlighted in Kept Text
A popular science note explains that adjusting foot brakes prevents waste and danger, noting it usually needs two people but can be done with a Jack A device shown in an illustration. The article from Prescott Ariz cites Koerner Rombauer in Popular Science Monthly.
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wade—Koerner Rombauer, Prescott, Ariz
Popular Science Monthly
Ingenious tool rack from bored holes in board
A simple rack holds flat tools by drilling holes just large enough for clothpin heads. Clothespins are driven into the holes and the cleft ends cradle the tools. A small wire nail through the pin heads secures them to the board.
Wrenching Bolts Safely Requires Skilled Hand and Care
A practiced hand intuits proper tightness to avoid damaging small bolts. Novices may over tighten with a long handle, roughing bolts, misaligning cotter pin holes, or misrotating castellated nuts. Improper seating can bend bolt heads and elongate the metal near the hole, compromising strength.
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