City charm tied to planning and topography says Wilbur
Dr Ray Lyman Wilbur former secretary of the interior and president of Better Homes in America tells the city planning audience that a city gains world repute from its setting and from wise civic center and street planning. He notes views shade trees and architecture shape character and home life reflects in citizenship and community service.
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Ray Lyman Wilbur
Secretary of the Interior
American Institute of Architects
Doctor Wilbur
America
Plea for Gardens on Unsightly City Spaces
A Detroit News editorial argues that distress can yield citywide benefits through garden use. It urges replacing rubbish heaps with flower beds and productive plots to foster civic neatness and aesthetic charm, inspiring Detroiters toward orderly tillage and renewed soil connection.
Housing plan envisions cottage cities with parks in New York
Thomas Adams, consultant to the regional plan, urged the welfare committee to pursue home owner led development of open fields in Staten Island Queens and Brooklyn to improve living conditions. He argued real estate is inevitable and condemned uninhabitable housing to push owners toward city development.
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Staten Island
Queens
Brooklyn
Thomas Adams
Regional Plan
New York
Welfare
Adams
Novel hillside wall built with cement piers and timber
An owner facing a high wall along a sloping hillside between a curb and a cement gutter used a low cost method. Cement piers 18 inches wide were placed about every 12 feet, then chicken wire filled the gaps and 2 by 4 inch timbers were laid between the piers to finish the wall at minimal expense.
Ornamental Fences Rise in Popularity for Gardens
Fence styles gain favor beyond utility as white fences with arches and climbing roses enhance seclusion. Squares with borders and graceful arches on gates feature in charm rich gardens. Traditional woven wire fencing remains effective for enclosing formal flower beds.
Recognition Grows as Spain Forms Republic and World Reads
The article notes Britain and the United States moving to recognize Spain's new republican government led by Zamora. It mentions Stimson informing diplomats, Laughlin's stay in Madrid, and stock market gains from the recognition. It also covers U.S. policy shifts on Nicaragua, Soviet wage reform, Babson's optimistic outlook, and broad international updates.
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United States
Great Britain
France
Madrid
Niceto Alcala Zamora
Spain
Spanish Republic
Henry L. Stimson
Washington
Zamora
Irwin B. Laughlin
Pittsburgh
Stimson
Hoover
Nicaragua
Department
Calvin Coolidge
New York
Ramsay MacDonald
Stanley Baldwin
Lloyd George
House of Commons
MacDonald
ELIEF
Honduras
Augustino Sandino
Gregorio Ferrera
Revolutionary Movement
Sandino
Ferrera
Mexico
Jesus Castro
Mexico City
Tegucigalpa
Mejia Colindres
Vicente Mejia Colindres
Liberal
Julius G. Lay
State Department
Fausto Davila
Baker declines active bid for Democratic nomination
W. B. Congwer of Ohio says Newton D. Baker of Cleveland will not seek the presidency nor push a candidate. Baker would accept if the convention cannot agree on an active candidate, but his stance remains no desire for further political advancement.
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Newton D. Baker
Cleveland
W. B. Congwer
Ohio
Baker
Western Newspaper Union
Modern small farm praised as most delightful dwelling
Excerpts celebrate simple living with Uncle Eben’s refrain on keeping quiet and the Washington Star’s note on happiness in everyday life. Country Home adds that a modern small farm is among the world’s most interesting places to live.
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Eben
Uncle Eben
Washington Star
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Coolidge
Edward W. Pickard
Federal Farm Board
Europe
James 8. Stone
Managua
Bluefields
Roger W. Babson
Babson
Wall Street
United States Employment Service
District of Columbia
William N. Doak
John R. Alpine
Francis L Jones
Veterans
Farm Employment Service
Doak
United States Steel Corporation
James A. Farrell
Mr. Farrell
BH. J. Buffington
Ilinois Steel
Joshua A. Hatfield
American Bridge
Ward B. Perley
Canadian Steel
J. S. Keefe
American Steel & Wire
E. W. Pargny
American Sheet & Tin Plate
Gary
Steel
Farrell
FORD
Tudor Sedan
Detroit
Ford Finance
Universal Credit Company
Nurery
Bethel
Georgetown
Bethel Nursery
BeThel, Ohio
I. N. Crain
Batavia
The
Georgetown Marble & Granite Co
BE. H. Kennedy
J. M. Cropper
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