Home Owners Protected by Zoning Restrictions
Charles H. Cheney of Los Angeles chairs a planning committee warning that ugly or poorly designed buildings depress property values and threaten neighborhoods. He cites 3.0 billion dollars spent on such buildings last year and urges investors and the public to adopt architectural control measures as cities already do. Santa Barbara's 1925 framework is noted.
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Charles H. Cheney
Los Angeles
Committee On City and Regional Planning
The
American Institute of Architects
Santa Barbara
Calif
More Than Mere Beauty in Attractive Grounds
The piece extols backyard beautification, comparing home garden projects to grand estates. It highlights family involvement, practical improvements like disguising pits and garages, and using plants to improve privacy and climate. It argues attractive yards add economic value and can serve as usable living space.
Green Streets Trees a Quiet Civic Force
The piece extols trees as good citizens policing urban life with shade and decency. It notes streets like Washington Boulevard and Grand Boulevard gain civility from small plantings and grassy yards, smuggled nature behind iron fences amid motor traffic.
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Washington Boulevard
Grand Boulevard
Irving Park Boulevard
Ashland Boulevard
Chicago Tribune
Hedge planting possibilities and decorative training tips
The article notes hedges offer numerous shapes from square to curved tops and arches. It emphasizes hedges as essential in landscaped designs and suggests they enhance property value and beauty for homeowners.
Revival of slate roof use brings beauty and skill
The article notes a revival of slate roofs in the country as manufacturers return to traditional methods. It highlights that modern installation combines aesthetic appeal with improved technical skill, blending old traditions with new life.
Select Trees Carefully For Lasting Landscape Beauty
Trees once planted become a permanent part of the landscape. Their value depends on how wisely they are selected, whether they bring joy and beauty or become eyesores to all who gaze upon them.
States Extend Penalty for Damaging Road Signs
Eighteen states now classify willful damage to official road signs as a misdemeanor, expanding legal penalties for vandalism. Officials say the measures aim to deter destructive acts and improve traffic safety nationwide.
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Union
The Maid by Douglas Malloch
Poem reflecting on the valued role of women who stay home to manage housework while others pursue broader lives. The speaker praises the homemaker as the most honorable, noting her private governance of secrets, duties, and daily labor within the household.
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Douglas Malloch
Superstitious Sue Says May Births Bring Lovers
A humorous item notes a May birth girl who wears an emerald all life will be a loved wife. sourced from McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Money-mindedness and child upbringing in 1930 context
In Jean Newton's Through a Woman's Eyes the essay argues money matters shape character. Excessive focus on money corrupts, while total avoidance harms prudence. Balanced forethought, not figures, guides graceful living across means.
Mothiers Cook Book and the Commonplace World
A reflective verse excerpt on everyday life and wonder. The speaker notes how common sun sky and ordinary nature shape a divine unity. God forms each separate soul into a beautiful whole from commonplace elements.
Benefits of vegetables in daily diet
Advice extols eating vegetables twice daily with half uncooked to boost digestion. Highlights minerals such as phosphorus calcium magnesium and vitamins A B C in common greens and roots. Encourages children to garden, notes superior taste of freshly picked produce, and offers a tomato salad recipe with cabbage onion pepper celery salt paprika and mayonnaise.
Why We Do What We Do by M. K. Thomson
M K Thomson argues curiosity is a fundamental instinct and emotion guiding action. It drives scientific progress and gossip alike, balancing fear with the craving for knowledge to prevent foolhardiness or cowardice, shaping romance and discovery.
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McClure
Nutty Natural History by Hugh Hutton Powk Creature
A humorous description of a mythical Powk living near locomotive works. It feeds on scrap iron and perches in girders, causing rivet loosening. The creature is depicted with a paper shell body, a filbert head, navy bean eyes, popcorn wings, and toothpick legs, in a playful Metropolitan Newspaper Service vignette.
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Metropolitan Newspaper Service
Whispered vows echo through marriage across time
A woman recalls a husband who whispered romance before marriage and again after, promising she would be the last one he would think of if he drowned. The lines stirred happiness before marriage, but after years together the impact faded, as she notes the sentiment no longer felt the same.
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Esides
Forecasts for Radio Reception in Geodetic Meeting
The proposal suggests including static forecasts with Stockholm Sweden talks on earth magnetism and electricity. Daily reports would cover magnetic disturbances to help radio listeners judge reception quality.
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International Geodetic Survey
Stockholm
Sweden
Wife Takes Up Motoring Sparks Urgent Question
A witty exchange notes a shift in opinion as one man advises his wife to take up motoring and soon asks why the stance changed. The reason given is that she has begun writing poetry.
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Mattie
May Want a Change
Exchange of vows is questioned as a modern maid resists a lifelong love, contrasting romantic protest with enduring attachment in a Cincinnati Enquirer excerpt.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Time-table confusion prompts engineer inquiry
A reader quotes a line about not understanding the timetable and suggests asking the engineer for plans. The note reflects a need for clarification and next steps.
Title of Honor Daudet Called Dickens of France
English admirers label Alphonse Daudet as the Dickens of France in a tribute recognizing his vivid storytelling and social satire.
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Title of
Alphonse Daudet
the Dickens
France
Pre Revolutionary Slavery Estimates in the American Colonies
In 1760 estimates suggest more than 300000 enslaved people lived in the American colonies. The text also condemns others claiming rights to control others appetites unless they are men fired or rights are interfered with.
How One Woman Lost 20 Pounds of Fat
A promotional claim extols Kruschen Salts as a fat loss aid. The text urges taking half a teaspoonful in hot water each morning, avoiding overeating, and notes benefits like energy and clearer skin. It promises a money‑back guarantee if no health improvement is felt. Lead druggists worldwide are selling Kruschen Salts.
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Grevvy
Joe Archibald
By Douglas Malloch
By Jean Newton
Mothiers Cook Book
Susan Coolidge
Western Newspaper Union
Girligaga
Bell
Ino
M. K. Thomson
Ph. D
Nutty Natural History
Hugh Hutton
DR. C
Parker
N.Y
Hiscox Chem
Mailor
Hiscox Chemical Works
Patchogue
N. Z
Sioux City
Tom
Jerry
Eta
Morningside College
Iowa
Frank E. Mossman
Pot Drug & Chemical Corporation
Malden
Mass
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