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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1920
Page
6
A young couple on a streetcar quarreled as he declared their relationship over and criticized her. she listened and offered brief remarks. The scene shifted to calm chatter in the car, while an advertisement for Cuticura skin products appeared in the surrounding text.
The article discusses choosing building materials for a home and favors brick for warmth in winter and coolness in summer. It highlights a popular five room brick bungalow design with a 26 by 10 foot porch, ample closet space, attic storage, a full basement, and practical room layout aimed at family comfort.
Neighborhoods push to acquire buildings once used for other purposes and convert them into permanent community centers. Towns with temporary soldiers' headquarters aim to keep them as long term community facilities, reflecting a wartime shift to lasting local hubs.
The article outlines a 20 by 48 foot standard brick house with a front pergola roof and decorative columns. It features five rooms including two bedrooms a dining room kitchen and a bathroom arranged around a 23 by 18 foot living room with large front and end windows and an open fireplace. It notes efficient use of space and suitability for narrow city lots with room for shrubs and flowers on larger plots.
An illustrated Popular Mechanics article describes a magnified vacuum system to remove ashes from large New York buildings. A concrete pit under the boiler plant serves as the intake, with a suction line extending to street level and the apparatus connected by a truck mounted unit.
Returning soldiers from World War I laud France for its highways praising the smooth shaded routes that aid travel. They cite the vast motor network near Verdun and note American efforts to build comparable roads, stressing the military and commercial value of well paved lanes. The American Legion forms bands of men nationwide to promote easy communication and good roads.
The Boston Herald argues that growing community music offers joy and purpose for participants, unites America in song, and urges towns to form community choirs or orchestras. It stresses involving children to build a loyal, shared musical future and notes WWI taught coming together through communal song.
The article urges buyers to choose a healthy location with good transport and water, reliable utilities at reasonable rates, and strong city services. It stresses considering future growth, residential restrictions, nearby properties, and potential encroachment by two family or business developments.
Kansas City Star notes the evolution of billboard regulation from 1908 to 1917. It cites a Supreme Court view that the state protects public interests like air, water, and forests, and later allows cities to prohibit billboard erection in residential districts for safety and morality.
Cadtus Joe vows to elevate a small game into a major effort. He argues the stakes should be bigger and the play fair, aiming to shift public attention toward larger scale competition.
In a historical snippet, the piece quips that ornamental government bureaus are adorned with large mobs. The tongue in cheek comment suggests public crowds as the decorative feature of state offices.
An old advertisement touts Bayer Tablets of Aspirin with a Bayer package and directions for Colds Pain Headache Neuralgia Lumbago and Rheumatism. It states Bayer means genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for nineteen years and notes handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost a few cents.
The United States Public Health Service reports a newly found germ called bacterium fultrense linked to a plague like disease in rodents and now suspected in fatal Utah cases. Surgeon Howard Francis confirms the investigation after doctors McCoy and Chapin locate the germ affecting humans via fly bite exposure. Fever persists for three to six weeks with tender lymph glands and suppuration near bite sites.
A nun and Senator Sorghum discuss handling bol shevists by turning them over to alienists. The exchange contrasts insanity attribution with extreme measures and suggests expert authority for dealing with suspects.
Theamaus Audubon collection of over 800 bird type specimens, once mislaid for decades, was found in Appleton cabinets at Amherst College. Fifty specimens bear Audubon’s handwriting dated 1834. The collection, once sold by the Audubon estate to Ward’s Natural Science, then to H. H. Furnum, was donated to Amherst College forty years ago.
A Birmingham Age Herald fragment shows Mr. Cobbles moving a car past a dusty bridge while noting a single rimshivkle bridge down the road. He dismisses a noisy rival driver as unlikely to catch him, and the scene shifts to post wedding congratulations given by the officiating minister.
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