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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1930
Page
9
A list highlights inexpensive yet pretty Christmas gifts, focusing on decorative flower pot covers. Descriptions include a gold lace paper design, a lemonade straw folding type in bright colors, and a willow woven basket style top cover suitable for winter plant protection.
Art plaques offer scenic relief figures like The Half Way Change The Roadside Mill A New England Home and Edinburgh Coach. Plaster relief with ivory finish gives inexpensive decorative objects for Christmas gifts. Ebony black glass items with sterling silver inlay also appear as elegant gift options such as bon bon dishes vases and console sets.
William A. Radford presents a Dutch colonial inspired home design featuring a modified roof line over the porch, a graceful break in straight lines, and exterior touches like a sun porch balcony and lattice porch side. The house, 24 by 80 feet with six rooms, sun parlor, full basement, and central hall layout, targets affordable elegance.
The article urges turning basement spaces into livable rooms such as playrooms or recreation areas. It discusses finishing walls with light colors, adding windows, lighting, and flooring options from linoleum to tile. It suggests using old carpets for rugs, integrating a fireplace if possible, and using the basement to reduce dirt in upper floors with modern heating.
A speaker advocates using select plants to be seen from the house, noting a few wisteria vines, two or three box bushes, and tall flowering spring shrubs create more charm than massed nurseryman style plantings.
Health fad saves the door industry says H Y Stillwell executive secretary of the National Door Manufacturing association. Arch trends threatened interiors but sunshine and health demand revived interest in windows solariums and French doors, keeping door makers afloat as homes demand more daylight.
Lightweight incombustible tile made from gypsum and wood fiber dominates fireproof partitions roof decks and floors. About 97 percent gypsum with gypsum mortar for partitions. Roof decks use special sizes across steel members. floors get cement topping and finish flooring. Tiles insulate heat and sound and can be sawed to fit odd spaces.
A spring painting guide stresses including a thorough washing in price estimates. It notes paint won’t adhere to grease and dirt, so prep is essential for durability and curb appeal.
Bee Johnson faces a lonely Christmas but vows to share joy. An anonymous admirer sends a potted poinsettia, sparking a meeting with Bartholomew Short, a newcomer on the same floor. They decide to celebrate together, turning isolation into shared festivity in a cozy apartment.
The piece notes that nothing is new about a Christmas tree or Santa Claus yet their timeless charm remains. It highlights wreaths in windows, stockings hung with expectation, family togetherness, and the joy of Christmas wishes, greetings, and gifts with festive decorations. No single new idea changes the season’s appeal.
A Los Angeles firm turns wornout shoes into by products, converting four and a half million pairs yearly while importing 850 million more shoes from other regions. The piece muses on repurposing old items into useful goods, imagining future markets for odd remnants like jay walkers and politicians.
The ad asserts no more COLIC pains with Castoria for growing children and promotes a liberal dose. It notes genuine Castoria bears Chas. H. Fletcher's signature on the wrapper and claims doctors prescribe it.
Two bridges the Detroit Windsor International and Mount Hope Newport R I bridge were torn down and rebuilt after defective processed steel wire in their cables was found. The cables used heat treated wire that proved faulty and had to be replaced by cold drawn wire before completion to avoid collapse.
A humorous exchange on a beach includes Jones warning of a hotel thief in the area while a woman insists she will stay at the hotel run by the thief. The dialogue captures a playful caution between an older man and his girlfriend.
A reflective note argues that philosophy collapses when the person one must care for quarrels with them, framing the dilemma as a clash between duty and mutual conflict within intimate relationships. It highlights the strain of caregiving when emotional ties complicate rational guidance.
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