Dining room makeover prompts in Maple and Toile ideas
A reader outlines a home decor puzzle for a dining room with two window sets and an arch, proposing corner maple cupboards, a small chest with a framed picture, and toile de Jouy wallpaper or chintz. The piece also describes a son’s bedroom redesigned in Jacobean oak with maps, a globe, and bright striped curtains to suit future tastes.
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Toile de Jouy
Brown
Betty Wells
WNU Service
Glacier Lake Dam Completed in Remote Montana Gorge
Glacier lake dam near Red Lodge Montana completes as an 82 thousand dollar rock filled reservoir supplying 54 thousand acres in Rock creek valley from Red Lodge to Silesia. The isolated project sits at 9750 feet in Beartooth country with a 52 foot high crest and 730 foot spillway, linked by CCC road and a 3500 foot cableway.
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Red Lodge
Mont
Beartooth Mountains
Drouth
Glacier Lake
America
Montana Water Conservation Board
Rock Creek Valley
Silesia
Cooney
Red Lodge Creek
CCC
Rock Creek Gorge
Student Invents Machine to Speed Mathematics
A young research physicist at Sydney University has invented a device that speeds complex mathematics. By tracing curves on paper it solves hours of work in minutes, with potential uses in railway engineering bridge construction statistics physics biology and electrical research.
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Dizzy Dean
Bradenton
Fla
Cardinals
Sydney
Sydney University
Harold Hawes
School of Economics
Purdue University
Standards of Living in Hard Times
A discussion shows that maintained living standards buffered most, while those with reduced income faced trimmed budgets. Cheaper rent shifted residents to less desirable areas, servants were dismissed, and apparel suffered lower quality and value, reflecting broader economic strain.
Redefining Standards of Living and True Aristocracy
An essay questions who sets living standards and by what authority. It argues standards should reflect inner culture over wealth, urging shifts toward less wasteful living, higher thinking, and genuine personal growth rather than external material privileges. It urges democracy to elevate individual aspirations and spiritual quality.
Sympathy and Justice Reflections From The Inner Heart Life
A brief Western Newspaper Union note extols sympathy simple justice and beneficent conduct as outward expressions of inner life. The concise affirmation emphasizes ethical behavior as public virtue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Newspaper Union
Theme song dress charms young wearers this season
The dress features a deep yoke, shirred bodice to the waist, small puffed sleeves, and a new fabric inspired by the song Daisy Daisy. It presents a quaint, appealing style for the very young, with the fabric echoing a familiar tune.
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Daisy
State shelterbelt value touted by CCC official
Balcom of Minatare, CCC forestry supervisor, told state irrigators a convention that shelterbelts and concrete ditches have boosted irrigation in western Nebraska. He cited 66 percent water loss before lining and said projects aid soil fertility and reduce evaporation.
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North Platte
R. B. Balcom
Minatare
CCC
Nebraska
Balcom
Home Heating Hints From John Barclay
John Barclay warns against using a poker to stir a furnace from above. Stirring piles ashes with live coals creates clinkers that choke the fire and clog grates. Packed fuel beds restrict air, but clinkers can usually be broken and dropped by shaking the grates.
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WNU
The Watch Ticket Mischief In The Rail Car
A pompous old gentleman bores travelers with tales of success. The ticket collector asks his destination. The passenger reacts angrily, claiming the ticket proves his travels while the collector reveals it is for a watch.
Duryea Wins First U S Car Race in 1895
Charles B Duryea won the first automobile race in America in 1895 with a gasoline buggy that easily beat the competing steamers and electric autos of the era.
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Charles B. Duryea
America
Glass Curtain at Palacio de Bellas Artes Shines with Tiffany Glass
A grand glass curtain at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, crafted by Tiffany of New York, features thousands of colored glass pieces. Its lighting highlights snow-capped Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl at sunrise, noon, and sunset.
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National Theater
Mexico City
Palacio de Bellas Artes
Tiffany
New York
Popocatepetl
Ixtaccihuatl
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Grampaw
Montana
Solid Rock Foundation
Hawaii
California
Leonard A. Barrett
Gage
Neil V. Vandemoer
Cochran
State Highway Department
North Western
Crowell
A. T. Lobdell
Nebraska Petroleum Marketers, Inc
Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace
Farm Security Administration
E. E. Greene
Cedar
Dawson
Morrill
Polk
Walter Jensen
Treasury
Saunders
Ben F. Saunders
John Barclay
Roosevelt
Faith Young
Owen D. Young
American Red Cross
Cary T. Grayson
Red Cross
Denton
Denton Magia
Weney
Denton Magic Mirror
Eanian Gution
Select Products, Inc
23Rd St
Long Island City
N.Y
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