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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1932
Page
2
An aging four family conversion illustrates how vacant large houses in town cores can become income producing. Brick veneered exteriors, two story porch, and bright interiors with modern lighting and built in kitchen cabinets attract tenants. With rents around $50 per month per unit, annual income nears $2,400, recouping modernization costs and proving old properties can be profitable through thoughtful redesign.
A reader urges homeowners to add illuminated house numbers for easy locating at night. Courteous marking helps visitors, mail carriers, and delivery personnel find addresses after sundown, ensuring guests are welcomed with practical improvements. Each house should be equipped with lit numbers for visibility.
A notice describes an electrical supply store and electrician offering suggestions to solve a home wiring problem. It emphasizes completing the home with a convenient electrical feature and notes the improvement is evident from the street.
The article explains that bathrooms need not be square or rectangular. It suggests converting nooks, under stairs, or three foot square closets into shower compartments or lavatories. It recommends placing fixtures in two separate spaces when a single room cannot hold all three. It notes the benefit of sharing fixtures when not all in one room. It ends with a note that people and animals in cold regions require fat producing food to exist.
An automatic coal stoker relieves homeowners from shoveling coal. A thermostatic control set to a desired temperature drives the furnace, signaling when heat is needed. The hopper is filled once daily and the stoker handles the rest, offering affordable operation.
An early appliance article extols the electric dishwasher as a major kitchen aid reducing labor and soap use. It outlines a two minute wash, hot rinses for sterilization, minimal water consumption, and autonomous drying, noting integrated models with white or enamel finishes. The piece ends with a tangential note on the vast number of fly species in North America.
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Mau rice Dekobra gathers in New York five chorus girls to learn how American men are viewed and finds a mix of caveman traits and wives’ control. A Uruguayan and a Detroitian provide tales illustrating cross cultural contrasts and outcomes. Gloria the singer imagines a subconscious readout leading to a hotel bed joke and a preacher.
In South St. Vrain canyon two unusual combatants were found dead nearby. The porcupine and a rattlesnake apparently fought with the snake’s venom striking the porcupine’s body as the porcupine’s quills pierced the reptile, leaving both lifeless a few feet apart.
In Longmont Colorado early morning fishermen reported a large brown bear in Boulder Canyon. Witnesses Merlyn Biehn and Ray Hubbard described the bear standing in the road before it fled when approached. The district notes brown bears are uncommon in the area.
Spain's barley crop for 1932 is estimated at 28 209 380 metric quintals, surpassing the previous decade's totals. The period's peak was 24 355 078 quintals in 1933, while the average last ten years stands at 20 341 086 quintals.
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