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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1925
Page
11
Abe Martin laments ill breeding among rural folks and notes a delayed appointment of a rural mail carrier after a lady friend reports the man’s behavior. The piece riffs on social customs, smoking, and decorum, then shifts to a domestic scene with Madge Graham and family, ending as Marion and Junior hide from imaginary Indians and pirates.
The article notes that the world war disrupted class status as wealth and rank collide with the need to work. It describes English, Austrian, and German titled women who have begun to join the working class, bearing a metaphorical dinner-pail amid postwar upheaval.
The Architects' Small House Service Bureau advises cutting costs in home building by reducing quantities or lowering qualities. They suggest omitting porches, exposing potential savings of 400 to 600 dollars, and even avoiding a full basement by using first floor heating and minimal excavation. The piece argues such sacrifices can still yield a warm home.
An article describes a favored six room concrete house plan with Spanish style features such as flat stucco walls and plaster arches. It outlines construction using poured concrete and steel girders, suitable for a 40 foot lot, with optional side porch and sand floated cement finish.
Reader questions about adding rooms, excavating under an old house, wall thickness, cedar closet lining, floor rewaxing, water stains under window sills, and hardwood floor buckling. Answers cover cost comparisons, planning, masonry widths per ordinances, sealing coats, varnish or shellac, brick mortar water bars, and board replacement to fix warping.
Miller Huggins, manager of the ex champion Yankees, and Bob Shawkey, veteran hurler, are wintering in St. Petersburg Florida as the team's permanent training camp nears completion. The two are seen discussing Florida real estate.
Wilson Compton, manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, leads a campaign to standardize lumber grades and sizes. He estimates standardization would save lumber buyers 100,008 annually.
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