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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1920
Page
6
This piece argues for modernizing modest homes with open first floors, central living rooms, and verandas connected to kitchens. It stresses sunlit spaces, flexible furniture layouts, planned storage, and practical second floor planning including multiple bedrooms and maid quarters.
A detailed plan for a solid brick residence by Chas. B. Sedgwick, 36 by 40 feet, with brick porch and sun room, dormers, slate roof, Flemish oak interiors, and a two-story layout. Estimated cost 10 000 to 12 000 dollars exclude heating and plumbing, with attic rooms and servants’ quarters. The Chronicle Telegram offers Sedgwick’s best house plans book of 100 designs for 1 00.
Mrs Isabella Cram believed first woman to pilot a vessel across the Atlantic. The four masted schooner Jean L Sommerville sailed from Las Palmas after Captain William F Cram fell ill. She steered through storms to the Florida coast and was towed to Mobile. She preserved her husband’s body and had it shipped to Bristol Maine for burial.
The piece suggests restrained use of woodwork in living spaces with white enamel and mahogany doors as a preferred finish. It recommends white enamel in bedrooms and bathrooms, archwood floors with light yellow wax, and tile doors and bases in the bath, aiming for sanitary, comfortable layouts.
The Ladies society of the Methodist church will host an old fashioned concert in costume in the near future. Iva Ashman is improving but cannot return to school. Vernon Russell has mumps. Perry Heinman sick with a relapse. The M E church society held a meeting January 16 with a fine chicken dinner by Mrs Wright. Baptist church annual meeting held January 12. Helen Sanders visiting Cleveland relatives. Lloyd Behner still ill. Mr Fox and son moved to Frank Nichols farm recently purchased from Ives Bros.
Dairying ends on the Henry Shauver farm located on West Ridge three and a half miles west of Elyria and one mile west of Lorain County Home. The property will be sold at public sale on the premises.
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