Building for better homes amid crowded suburbs
The article urges home builders to avoid uniform districts and instead create houses with distinctive exterior and efficient interiors. It emphasizes economic design by an experienced architect, proper bearing partitions, and proportional use of materials. A sample design features cement plaster, a large living room, open stair, two large bedrooms, and modern plumbing and wiring.
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Wm Onige
Mando Mw
Tunlding
Amn
Tatni & Bood Groue
Cinlah
Velvety Turbans Dominate Winter Millinery Style
Fashion notes describe winter turbans as the season’s lead hat style with draped velvet and silk combinations. Turbans sit close to the head, some almost cape like, offering elaborate crowns of velvet, brims of tapestry, and fur trim, finished with plumes and bows.
The Failure and the Subscriptions
A man named Seymour recounts a tale of nine publications that doomed his brother’s business. Astley explains the failure came from subscribing to all, claiming it took six tries before he could read enough to feed his ego.
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Seymour
Cream Beaver Hat Care For Bed Clothes Soaking Method
Instructional note shows a traditional wash method for blankets and bed clothes. It describes making warm suds with soap, soaking textiles, pounding with a clean tool, rinsing thoroughly, and airing on a line to prevent matting. The wording reflects old fashioned housekeeping guidance.
Embroidery Jabot Described for Linen Attire
A historical note describes an embroidered jabot for linen wear. The jabot, in a Vandyke pattern, was sold in Canada from the fen k to the water line, tapering to a point. It used tight gathering of eyelet, arranged in eg as jag style along the narrow foundation strip.
A Sewing Tip for Fine Silk and Cotton Threads
A sewing note advises that fine silk can fray and snag when pulled with coarse thread. Use cotton thread in the bobbin and a silk thread on top. Do not tighten stitches to avoid water marks and seam marks that are hard to remove.
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Sare Cole
Alan Ha
Frightfully Fashioned Hats Stun City Millinery Beat
A era of bizarre millinery arrives as hats feature plane wings mercury like wings and sugar loaf shapes. Velvet toques in Wedgwood blue with veiled eyes and crowded crowns dominate the scene.
Cucumber Cream Preparations From Basic Ingredients
A recipe describes two methods to make cucumber cream using two omater mains and oil with white wax and permablet. One half ounce of white wax and cucumber julum are combined and the mixture is grated or mashed and simmered with water, then strained. The resulting cream is used with other creams.
Concrete feeding floor gains for hogs and farms
An Iowa farm writer from Orange Judd Farmer extols concrete feeding floors for hogs. Benefits include a sturdy foundation for troughs, reduced ground waste, easier cleaning, and healthier hogs. A 18 by 20 foot floor serves about 100 pigs, costing roughly 56 to 40 dollars in materials, with options to attach a granary and feeder units.
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J. Ko Troeger
Iowa
Orange Judd Furmner
Jersening
Alma
Farmers Cure Their Meats In Rustic Preservation Method
An early 20th century column by RC. Mill argues farmers should cure their own meat using simple on farm techniques. It describes sedate steps with sugar and salt rubs, barrel packing, and controlled heat with hickory smoke, stressing even moisture loss and non reliance on preservatives.
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RC. Mill
Peter
Bensoata
Virginia
Giant Wheat Plant Grows Richly On Oregon Ranch
A single wheat plant grown on J Yeager’s ranch near the Dells Oregon bore over 100 heads and 136 branches all notably well oiled, a remarkable specimen reported from a local agricultural note.
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J . Yeager
Dells
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