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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1931
Page
8
William A Radford outlines a small 26 by 28 foot cottage with a large front living room spanning the width, two upper bedrooms with closets, a main dining area, kitchen with pantry, and a modern upstairs bath. The design features wide shingles, a prominent chimney, and a central entrance that enhances charm and dignity in a compact footprint.
A guide for homemakers to beautify rooms by painting furniture and fittings. It encourages bold color choices, simple decorative touches, and wax sealing for a soft, lasting finish. Practical steps include sanding, multiple undercoats, and color contrasts on cupboards and bookcases.
The home increasingly integrates the garage as a core feature. Basements increasingly host two car garages to simplify heating water and electric lines and use space efficiently. In built garages, heating pipes waste less heat and fumes are protected from inflammables.
Steel windows offer versatile standard sizes for single or grouped use. Architects gain extensive artistic arrangement options, improving home beauty inside and out. They open easily, never warp or rattle, seal against storms, wash from inside, and cost about 2 percent of the house price.
Summer 1931 fashion notes lavish ruffles and ruchings on sheer organdie frocks with tiny ruffles for a sprightly silhouette. Wide brim hats in straw or lace, all-white millinery, and breezy sheers like organdie and voile define garden party looks with pastel sashes and gardenias.
North Carolina State poultryman N W Williams advises a sanitary range with ample green feed and movable shelter for pullets from ten to twelve weeks. Shelter aids ventilation shade and weather protection. avoid heavy protein rations until body fully develops. keep mash before birds and provide grain at night. water intake rises in warm weather.
Practical advice to farmers on preserving egg quality in heat. Recommend removing roosters after hatching, selling price decline from keeping roosters, and avoiding fertile eggs spoiled by heat. Advise twice daily gathering, cool storage, clean nests, and mite control. Candling stray eggs to ensure edibility. selling inedible eggs is often illegal.
Egg handling advice stresses extra care in heat to improve quality and price. Minnesota extension poultry specialist Miss Cora Cooke urges cleanliness, ample nests, and frequent egg gathering. Do not wash dirty eggs as washing removes protective shell coating.
Turkeys should not be exposed to dampness and eggs derive from five pounds of feed per one pound of eggs. Keeping more than four chicks per square foot of space is risky. If worm infestation appears, treat each young bird before placing in the laying house. Rearing turkeys in confinement is costlier but practical. A dry mash feeder and regular grain feed twice daily for yard-kept hens prove more profitable than foraging.
Paul P. Harris of Betry commented that Washington lobbyists gave complex explanations of their work and confused the witness. A lawyer pressed the witness on a tangled family relation claim, but the witness persisted with a rambling genealogy before the lawyer stopped the exchange.
The piece notes Professor Einstein struggles with domestic bookkeeping while Frau Einstein says she must handle the family ledgers. Bernard Shaw ranks Einstein among history’s greatest minds, alongside Pythagoras and Galileo, praising his universe-making influence and excluding conquerors like Napoleon.
The Wall Street Journal notes chlorophyll in plants enables food from air and water. US Department of Agriculture scientists have learned to extract chlorophyll in large quantities and are sending it to laboratories for further experiments. The research hints at understanding how chlorophyll works to help produce plant products symbiotically.
The village of Croveo in Lombardy has 180 inhabitants with three women aged ninety five and older. Twelve nonagenarians and twenty people aged seventy five or more live there, making it notable for longevity among small Italian towns.
A Pathfinder Magazine excerpt notes a resident misimagining sewer work as a miniature golf course. Officials clarify, saying the project will indeed install sewer pipes, dispelling the humorous confusion.
A brief, wry meditation on campus chatter and the burdens of fame. The piece mulls how being well known invites annoyance, and jokes about family ties as social protection. The tone blends light sarcasm with pointed observation of public life.
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