28 Jun 1929
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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1929
Page
1
A design for a small one-and-a-half story cottage by W A Radford illustrates practical home building guidance. The 20 by 26 foot dwelling packs six rooms across two floors, with a living room, dining room, kitchen, three bedrooms, and a bath, featuring dormer-like windows and a broken roof line for a larger look.
This piece argues for selecting brass water pipe in new houses to avoid expensive future repairs. It notes pipes hidden behind walls are hard to replace, making brass a dependable long lasting option that experts increasingly specify for discriminating clients.
A practice called chalking causes dark blotches after painting where loose pigment escapes the vehicle and leaves ash powder on the surface.Washing with a damp cloth restores the original color, showing the issue is chalking not fading.
Historical guidance explains that staining beneath light colored paint can bleed through. It recommends sealing stains with two coats of pure shellac, followed by white lead and flatting oil paint, and repeating shellac as needed if bleeding persists.
Oak is a popular floor wood. It can be laid irregularly with boards of different widths to create an antique look. The grain and color blend across the lustrous expanse, showcasing nature’s beauty throughout.
A terse note urges consideration of sturdy home building, noting that good construction pays off with one upfront cost. The text emphasizes lasting value and financial prudence for homeowners and builders alike.
The rise of manufacturing in rural America brings plants for cotton by products washing machines and metal goods to inland districts. Growth supports farmers via local markets better roads and schools and brings electric power. Electrification and farm credit benefits follow, aiding land values and farming methods.
A compact home benefits from planting to visually reduce its size and blend with the ground. Real estate pros note trees and shrubs add value, with native selections thriving with less care, while foreign plants require more maintenance.
The Missouri House passed a bill letting all cities adopt ordinances creating city planning and zoning commissions with authority to lay out permanent physical lines. Commissions would present planning work to city councils for approval.
United States Bureau of Public Roads engineers advocate a minimum of 20 feet for two lane highways. In built up areas roadway width should be 36 feet to allow parallel parking and 40 feet where diagonal and right angle parking is permitted.
The extent of ground required is about ten or twelve square rods for the different summer fruits, and an acre and a half or two acres for all the others except the winter apples. The early or summer apples might be placed in between the winter apples as fitters, as these are less permanent trees.
In Waldport Ore a Tribune note questions rushing to help the community. It suggests taking time to think over such actions before committing, emphasizing thoughtful civic involvement.
In The Dalles Oregon the Optimist questions the idea that wealth stays local and argues money earned locally should be spent within the town rather than sent to distant firms or mail-order houses. The piece challenges consumer habits and urges supporting nearby merchants.
Sullivan County Indiana clubwomen launch a beautification drive along highways by planting trees evergreens and vines. As the season progresses flowers will be planted in selected spots detected by them.
A conceit on living nobly, urging the reader to act now rather than dream. The voice advises doing noble deeds daily to shape life, death, and the vast mystery into a single grand song. Includes poetic misspellings and archaic spellings reflecting Elizabethan sentiment.
A vintage dessert roundup describes lemon pineapple sherbet and watermelon sherbet with sugar water gelatin orange juice and crushed pineapple plus a velvet sherbet with milk and sugar. Banana fluff blends ripe bananas with sugar salt lemon juice whipped cream and cherries for serving.
A quirky prognostication claims a gambler who sews a badger’s wisdom tooth into his Wett-hand vest pocket will gain luck and never lose. The odd belief links animal tooth with fortune.
A column by F. A. Walker argues against aging at fifty and urges ongoing productivity. It notes a New York bishop who rose from rector to bishop in fifteen years and that Michelangelo and Goethe achieved great work after fifty, inspiring readers to stay active, avoid worrying, and pursue lifelong learning.
A reflective verse on Irish wit and culture contrasting claims of power and war. It argues that despite gifted humor and song, communal strife persists yet Irish wit ultimately spreads joy worldwide through mirth and creativity. Published 1929.
A discussion on the belief that a snake’s tail remains alive until sunset, tracing the idea to Egyptian myth and Horus Osiris Apap. It links reptile physiology, decapitation, and cultural transmission through Greco Roman myth, noting Apollo’s serpent Python and broader European echoes.
The article discusses language shifts from Shakespearean usage to modern meanings and traces Christmas practices from past to present. It notes Christmas ere as a time of merriment before Christmas day dominated, and that gifts moved from being a New Year custom to a common practice today.
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