The Home Note and the Quest for True Residence
An essay contrasts wealthy homes with real homes, noting grand exteriors lack intimate warmth. It argues that the poor see sameness and neglect while suggesting alternatives: better front lawns, plantings, and gardens to transform a house into a true home.
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Ile
Model villages in England spark urban suburb plans
A historical column describes England's push for model villages and suburbs with low density layouts, hedged wards, gardens, allotments, and recreation grounds. It notes Brighton's leadership and contemplates whether bright youths will inhabit or rebel against this new communal living concept.
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Brighton
Hollding
Democras
Fruits and town beautification spur roadside planting ideas
The article argues for fruit trees along highways inspired by Japanese cherry fame and the value of communal fruit. It notes New England’s clean-up campaign awarding a loving cup to Malden for neatness and beautification, with Manchester and Hartford also recognized.
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Dogen
Fing Baldwin
Ot Jong Realiz
New England
Ely
Malden
Bawa
Manchester
Nah
Hartford
Conn
Gardens In Cities It: A City Dwellers View On Yards
A fragmented reflection argues that urban residents with backyards bear a burden of neglect yet may find hope in cultivating garden space. The piece contrasts city life with rural escape and urges shedding fatigue for renewed beauty and vitality.
Free Machinery for New Laboratory at Colorado Agricultural College
The Colorado Agricultural College Fort Collins experiment station has installed a road materials testing laboratory. It will perform standard mechanical tests on rock, stone, slag, gravel, sand and top soil with no charge for testing. Samples must be large enough for complete investigations.
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O. W. Adams
Colorado Agricultural College
Fort Collins
Colo
Fort Colling
France
Massachusetts Highway Commission
Logan W. Page
Unt
United States
Ens
Unclear ancient papyrus fragment on women's conduct
The fragment from Keypt is partly legible and accuses women of wicked influence. It notes a long history of misfortunes tied to female conduct and suggests wealth used for evil doubles the harm. The tax line is damaged but hints at a SUG BONNET tenor.
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Keypt
Elaine
Hit
Deed Prompted Girl’s Humble Plea to Mother
Hazel disobeyed mother and faced scolding yet showed remorse. She apologized, saying she would not scald again and wished not to feel bad, seeking forgiveness for the fault that troubled her conscience.
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Hazel
My Crown Daughter Chooses Company To Look Clean
After school, a daughter returns home insisting on staying with a friend. She says she prefers going with the friend because it makes her look cleaner than others. The mother questions the choice.
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Toam
Salton Sea Rapidly Receding as Land Surfaces Rise
The Salton sea in the Imperial valley is shrinking at about a mile per year, exposing salt crusted land eagerly taken for homesteads. Plans by Arizona and California capitalists aim to develop date land and a large fish cannery while mud volcanoes and bubbling palet pots attract tourists.
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Arizona
Los Angeles
Cal
Salton Sea
Imperial Valley
United States Department of Agriculture
Salton
Desert
Colorado
Gulf of California
Liew Fishings Opportunities Open Deep Ocean Grounds
The article notes that fish range to 2 600 feet creating vast new grounds off the British western coast Teeland and Newfoundland. It suggests future use of improved nets and tickle fishing to operate in much deeper waters than before.
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Teeland
Newfoundand
Bound to Do Some Good in Small Acts
A compact note on sowing courtesy and kindness at little cost. Seeds planted in daily deeds may take root in others and yield happiness, growing in the minds of people who receive them. The passage frames small benevolent acts as lasting, fruitful influence.
McAdoo Literature Costs and Campaign Printing Debacle
A 1920 message criticizes McAdoo for lavish campaign literature funded by taxpayers. It contrasts 329 tons of McAdoo materials printed by Treasury and Railroad Administration with under 40 tons from the Executive Office. The piece highlights personal funding claims and political promotion costs during 1916–1919.
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Harvey’s
Campagin
Smoot
Executive Department
McAdoodle
Treasury Department
Railroad Administration
Altoona
Treasury
Paying Federal Officials
The president receives payment by settlement warrant from the treasury sent by messenger, twice a month. Senators and representatives are paid by check or cash per congressional disbursement, with cash recipients receiving crisp new notes.
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United States
Treasury
Washington
Song Loving Fricking Bird In Coastal Echoes
Fragmented notes describe bird lovers in Florida with Northern roots recalling the mockingbird’s song. The text hints at cultural memories, regional changes, and emotional ties to music and place without clear events or dates.
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