Home as premier investment despite stock market crash
Leaders in lumber foresee price rises ahead while a well located, well built home remains a premier investment. A Warren Ohio example shows a house costing 7245 dollars in 1929 would outpace a $7000 stock basket whose value fell to 1008 dollars by 1932, proving housing held steadier value amid market stress.
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Warren
American Can
A. T. and T. Bethlehem Steel
Con. Gas
Corn Products
DuPont
General Motors
Inter. Harvester
Montgomery Ward
New York Central
Pub. Service of New Jersey
Sears-Roebuck
Standard Oil
N. J
U S. Steel
Colson Co Solvent, Plans to Expand in Elyria
Hall Kirkham as receiver reports Colson Co is solvent and will boost manufacturing to meet rising orders. The Elyria plant is one of the city's largest and optimism about its future strengthens hope for local employment and economic recovery. The world also needs Colson Co's products.
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Colson Co
Elyria
Hall Kirkham
Flexing the Curriculum to Reduce Educational Failures
A Wilkes-Barre city school study reports 20 to 30 percent yearly failure in grades and high school with 18 percent due to illness, 39 percent to personal handicaps, and 43 percent to curricula not matching student needs. It urges flexible curricula, better textbooks, and individualized education, noting costs rise but advocating maximum reach over select pupils.
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Wilkes-Barre
Erades
Budget Budget Budget at Elyria Little Theatre
Readers critique a crowded Elyria City Hall budget session at the Little Theatre on Court Street. Citizens urge cuts to spending, demand clarity on savings, and call for relief for taxpayers while officials defend reductions and seek bids on coal printing and street work.
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Court Street
Chamber of Commerce
Mr. Smith
Elyria
Cheney
Schillman
Bacon
Chamber of
Rankin
van Oster
Notley
Mr. Rankin
Elyna
Cit
Billy Smith
Wal
Vt Vavor
Lorain County
Natonal
Notable 19th Century Birthday and Death Anniversaries
Anniversaries list prominent figures born or died on this date. Hamilton Fish, Uriah S Stephens, Thomas F. Meagher, and Greene V. Black are noted with brief biographical highlights and places linked to their lives or deaths. The entries cover New York figures and Civil War era individuals with dates spanning 1808 to 1836 births and 1867 deaths.
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Hamilton Fish
New York
Grant
New York City
Garrison's
Y Y
Firha
Halifax
Yonkers
Uriah S Stephens
Knights of Labor
Cape May
Thomas F. Meagher
Montana Territorial
Ireland
Fort Benton
Mont
Greene V. Black
Today in History Highlights From Major Dates
A compact digest of historical milestones and notable births: Northwestern dentistry professor and writer born in Scott County died 1915. Samuel M Jones of Toledo born in Wales died 1904. Rupert Brooke, English poet, died 1915. 1492 Columbus sailed to discover a new world. 1852 first intercollegiate boat race Harvard beat Yale. 1907 Standard Oil fined for rebating. 1914 Germany and France at war. 1928 Calvin Coolidge sworn in as president in Plymouth, Vermont.
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Northwestern University
Scott County
Samuel M. Jones
Toledo
Ohio
Wales
Rupert Brooke
Columbus
Spain
America
Harvard
Yale
Standard Oil Company
Mt. $ Court
Chicago
Germany
France
Calvin Cooldge
Plymouth
Birthday notices for Clara Laughlin Samuel Shortridge and more
Birth anniversaries for Clara E Laughlin the Chicago travel author born in New York 59 years ago for Samuel M Shortridge California born Mt Pleasant Iowa 7 years ago and Arthur A Ballantine New York Undersecretary of the Treasury born Oberlin Ohio 49 years ago Lester H Woolser noted Washington DC lawyer former Solicitor of State born Stone Ridge NY 35 years ago Charles Edison son of the late inventor and president of Thomas A Edison Inc born at an unspecified place.
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Clara E. Laughlin
Chicago
New York
U. S
Samuel M Shortridge
California
Mt. Pleasant
Iowa
Arthur A Ballantine
the Treasury
Oberlin
Ohio
Lester H. Woolser
Washington, DC
Stone Ridge
Charles Edison
Thomas A. Edison, Inc
Fresh Air Facts and Snappy Jokes From Montclair
A collage of quips and odd notes from Fresh Air and local Montclair items. Bits on air purity, famous birthdays, witticisms about leadership and debt of gratitude, plus humorous vignettes about fashion, motoring, a neighborly crime doubt, and a flapper at a riding stable.
Why He's Wearing it and Other Odds and Ends
A scattered column from York Pennsylvania humor and gossip notes include a widow leaving 26500 to her pets buried with her in the same grave, a joking remark about a luckless bettor, a quip on social climbers at beauty parlors, and a Wisconsin daylight saving bid.
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York
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Voice OF
THE
People
West Orange
Stanley Baldwin
King Haakon VII of
Norway
Luke McLuke
Rhinetown
Rock of Gibraltar
Bida
Montclair, N. J
Witherspoon
Wisconsin
Cedar Point Beach
Murbach Coal & Supply Co
W. Bridge St
Ats
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