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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1937
Page
6
The article stresses that roughly a third of life is spent in the bedroom and emphasizes comfort, lighting, harmony, and a proper sleeping environment. It highlights cross ventilation as a key design factor, advocating two-wall windows that open easily to admit fresh air, especially in hot months.
The article argues that a city’s image hinges on its residential streets. Well designed, modern homes signal progress and civic pride, while outdated dwellings suggest stagnation. Local loyalty drives community modernization, benefiting both the city and homeowners.
The text discusses window choices from single to multiple in bedrooms to improve natural light. It covers interior decorating ideas reflecting owner taste, with light wall colors for small rooms, flat pastel paints, and flowered wallpaper. It advises proper lighting placement, outlets, reading lamps, and heating accessories, and emphasizes a balanced, uncluttered bedroom with essential furniture like bed, dressing table, chest, and chairs.
A study of about twenty houses shows only one added a front porch during recent renovations, while many converted porches into sun parlors. Sun rooms with large casement windows offer high ventilation and year round use, unlike open porches. The sun parlor becomes a bright gathering space, often furnished with wicker and cushions, sometimes serving as a radio room for the family.
Every home should have a means to secure hot water at any hour. Winter provides hot water via a tank connected to the heating plant, but summer stops this. An automatic hot water heater is the summer solution. A plumber or public service shop can advise the proper kind. Several standard makes are offered at attractive prices.
Penfield Grange will meet Sept 15 at 5 p.m. for annual inspection. first Parent Teachers meeting is Sept 16. School opened 151 pupils. Ruth Schulzig on month’s hospital leave. Kay Andrews with mumps. Local residents and visitors listed from Goshen to Grand Rapids. Yosemite trip noted by Clinton DeFields. Medina fair attendance cited.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. DeFields entertained guests at a chicken dinner including Mr. and Mrs. Perry Aldrich and daughter of Indiana, Mr. and Mrs. Cook of Illinois, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Turner and Burt Turner of Litchfield, Adelbert DeFields and son Henry Jr. of Wellington, Fred Rollin and son Warren, and A. R. Smith. Afternoon callers were Mr. and Mrs. Guy Frasier with son and daughter from Wellington.
The only Edward VIII pennies minted in the Empire arrive in Sydney after being produced at the Royal Australian Mint for New Guinea use. The coins feature a central hole for threading on wire or twine. Carved stone work dominates decorative motifs in Hindu temple architecture.
The passage stresses that homeowners adopt improvements to enhance comfort and appeal. Each updated home serves as evidence of a progressive, uplifting community spirit. It notes that homes need not be built entirely of brick and stone, but can mix textures to relieve monotony and add character.
An old article explains chimneys can be more than vents for smoke. It notes they once stood straight a foot above the ridge and were plain. Today chimneys express the dwelling’s individuality, especially in English style houses where the chimney ends in a distinctive termination.
In Chico California a railroad cow ignored repeated engineer whistles. A cowboy on board blew a Tarzan like cow call and finally got the animal to move. The piece ends with a hopeful, reflective refrain about living and dying in hope.
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