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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1921
Page
6
Architect William A. Radford outlines a compact home plan aimed at exterior beauty and interior comfort. The design favors fewer rooms with efficient layouts, a central hall, bedrooms with long closets, and a full basement for heating, storage, and garden tools.
In the oak openings along the Columbia River Washington wild pigeons gather on last year's acorn crop. Birds feed heavily and some reach great size from the nut diet. A few killed for the pot compare favorably with grouse. Wild and domestic hogs make little dent in the acorns during winter and spring. the crop this summer promises abundance.
The notes detail a 46 by 32 foot home with four first floor rooms and two bedrooms, a front corner entry, living room, dining room, and kitchen with pantry and workspaces. Pigeons are noted as arriving daily from Columbia River islands. A separate anecdote recalls a Hoosier minister’s wife preparing for surgery and a child’s wry remark about family plans.
Senator Sorghum asks about the theory of relativity and confesses no attempt to understand it. He doubts the topic will arise in any political campaign. The exchange hints at philosophical detours overshadowing policy debate.
The census reveals 14 Japanese cities exceed 100000 residents. Tokyo remains the largest city and capital with a population of 7173162.
The United States Department of Agriculture reports that 22,030 miles of federal aid roads have been built or are under construction, with earth, sand-clay or gravel surfaces making up over two-thirds of the total. Costs favor low, locally appropriate surfaces, and a thorough engineering and economic analysis guides each project. As of March 1, 22,080 miles were completed or under construction across 48 states, with an estimated total cost of 361,468,868 dollars.
The record explains estimated costs and mileage per road type. Federal aid requires an engineer inspection, local condition study, and state consultation before project approval. It notes misconceptions about eligible roads and stresses properly built earth roads as the fundamental highway improvement.
Three hundred inmates from Sing Sing and other prisons are laboring on New York state highways in one hour gangs. The prisoners promised not to attempt escape under guard. The inmates earn about one and a half cents a day.
Maj. Sam McCullough led 40 men from Fort Pitt to lift the siege of Fort Henry near Wheeling in 1777. Cornered at a cliff, he raced his horse over a 50 foot drop then across a 250 foot slide into Wheeling Creek, escaping unharmed and returning to Fort Pitt. Five years later he died in an Indian ambush along a road near Van Metre's fort.
The article highlights a large U S Department of Agriculture fumigation vat at Laredo on the Texas border that detoxes freight cars from Mexico infected with pink bollworm to protect cotton yields. Smaller stations operate at coastal points to prevent pest spread. A sideline quip features Auditor Jim Gorum humor about answering his son’s questions.
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