Co operative Building A Path To Shared Apartment Ownership
The article argues co operative ownership of floors or whole buildings as a solution to housing shortages. It describes Gramercy Park in New York with owner-occupants forming stock companies to own and manage apartments, notes costs around 42000 for a six suite building, and notes the growth of such models beyond big cities including smaller towns. It also touches on child friendly design and selective tenancy rules, and ends with a side note on packing industry politics.
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Gramercy Park
New York
Greater New York
America
Public Service Commission skewed toward utilities, not people
The piece denounces the Washington Public Service Commission as a friend of utility firms, citing past rate decisions in gas and phone cases and rail-like treatment of Seattle, Tacoma, and Spokane fares. It notes two new commissioners face first major test and questions if they will serve the public or continue corporate servility. It also recalls Romania declining a treaty with Austria over minority protections.
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State Public Service Commission
Public Service Commission
Washington Public Service Commission
Tacoma
Spokane
Seattle
Burleson
Blk
Autumn Echoes Of Aging And Peaceful Decay
The narrator reflects on growing old and loving autumn’s calm. He contrasts spring’s stir and winter’s bite with the season’s peace, yellow fields, ripening harvests, and quiet countryside. A final jibe at aging and a satirical note on Pershing and postage close the meditation.
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Yellow Hills
Use of Trouble by Dr Frank Crane
The article argues pain and trouble reveal true character, with examples from hospital nurses, a judged woman in crisis, and the Beach Combers club in New York. It suggests danger exposes virtue or vice when prudence fades and asks how one knows themselves without hardship, even contemplating death as ultimate test.
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Frank Crane
Tubal Cain
Noah
Archbishop Whately
New York
Beach Combers
Editor's Mail Objects to Rodeo Brings Cruelty Concerns
A Seattle reader denounces a Liberty Park rodeo show as bloodthirsty and cruel. She cites steer dogging roping and other brutal practices, urging enforcement of animal cruelty laws and accountability for organizers and officials.
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RODEO
Fleet Entertainment Committee
Fleet
Liberty Park
Citizen
Prolific Q&A and Gags From The Strand and Street
A collage of jokes, stray questions, and humorous quips from various readers and columns. Items touch on expressions and puns, odd facts, household hints, and light surprises, mingling references to public entertainments and everyday curiosities across locales.
Pageant, emperors, and a 2 000 000 prisoner tally across ages
Fragmentary chronicle recounts a solar eclipse in 619 B C marking a historic Syrians versus Medes battle, Pompey’s 30 year successes, Rudolph I’s rise and Austria expansion, and Colonel John White’s 1779 trick to feign a siege by burning three sides of a fort.
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Thaler
Pompey
Goda
Rudolph 1
Hapsburg Nasty
Hapsburgs
Rudolph
Germany
Gregory X
Rome
Austria
Carniola
Syria
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Donald McKee
King County Humane Society
Sanford Bertrand Ricaby
J. Brown
Orpheum
Third and
Madison
Mutual Savings Society
Puget Sound Savings and Loan Association
Pike Street
Strand
Baa
M. B. R. Pearn
Matinee
H. Pr. B
Albert
Belgium
J. N
Newport
Connecticut
Omaha
Neb
Corone
Los Angeles
Cal
Pat
Red Cross
University Street
Relief Dept
Elliott
Jumble Shop
Boldt’s
3D Ave
Ave
Just
Europe
Electric
Fourth Ave
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Mglagas
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