Art in Architecture Describing a Cottage Home Design
A detailed 37 by 55 foot cottage plan is described with refined massing and simple exterior. features include a cellar, stone foundation, wood upper, front porch, vestibule, parlor, sitting room, dining room with wide doors, bay corners, staircase to a four-bedroom second floor, and an open fireplace. The design emphasizes efficient, moderate-cost construction using cypress and pine, with three-coat paint, natural finish, and a furnace heating system. Projected cost is $2,000 to $2,200 in many localities.
Choice of Touring Companions Stresses Pair Harmony
The piece argues bicycle touring thrives on careful companion choice. It warns that pairing random friends leads to one lagging or rushing, spoiling the ride for both. It cites a London census showing 4,536,034 residents and notes Portugal’s mild climate makes heating stoves uncommon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hielden
Rapid Fire Pistols and Granite Blocked for Lighthouse
The United States Board of Ordnance recommends 15000 dollars to buy 1000 automatic pistols, enough for five troops of cavalry. Tests showed 30 shots in 15.4 seconds, about 116 rounds per minute, the fastest yet. A solid gray granite mass weighing about 1400 tons in a German quarry is to be cut into five ton blocks for a new English lighthouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Board of Ordnance and Fortifications
Springfield Armory
Bormin
Under Various Flags and Trade Shifts in 1801 to Today
An 1801 Hamburg ad shows cigars increasingly replacing pipes in Germany. A London law on hawking newspapers is rarely enforced. In the British trade, 7 000 sailing vessels and 2 800 steamers prevail, while foreign trade favours steamers with 1 700 sailing ships and nearly 4 000 steamers. An medical journal notes British women's height rose from five seven to five ten inches over decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamburg
Germany
London County Council
Blacksmith's Rheumatism Cured by Dodds Kidney Pills
N E Albertson of Goodland Kansas suffered severe Rheumatism keeping him from sleep. A friend recommended Dodds Kidney Pills and his pain vanished. He is now well and praises the medicine for curing this severe case and other alleged ailments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goodland
Kan
N. E. Albertson
Dodd
Bright
Free from One Danger in Cold Morning
Two Black carriage drivers, long morning shifts, discuss the cold. One recalls nearly freezing as dawn breaks while the other notes not as cold, but no chance for a man to get over it while he sat around. Memphis Scimitar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Scimitar
Crookedent River of the Ozarks and White River Curves
The Chicago Chronicle notes Crookedent River rises in the Boston mountains near Batesvillea and travels through the Ozarks into Arkansas lowlands. White River forms astonishing bends. it nearly doubles back on itself from source to flat country. Straight-line distance about 350 miles, while river length exceeds 600 miles with estimates up to 1000 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Boston Mountains
Batesvillea
Ozarks
Arkansie
White River
Chicago Chronicle
Archway of Horseshoes at Amesbury Forge
An archway marks the forge entrance near Amesbury Wilts, a curious monument built from over four tons of horseshoes gathered by the blacksmith who owns the forge. The columns were raised by his patience and ingenuity, named Strand in local lore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amesbury
Wilts
Smits
Western Canada hunting and settlement life described
An extended piece extols Western Canada for farming, hunting, and settlement ease. It highlights abundant game including mallards, deer, wapiti, and moose, pioneer life with distant Indian camps, simple rural comforts, and the reach of a railway to remote areas. It notes government land information available via Canadian agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Land of Plenty
F. Pedley
Ottawa
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ART IN Architecture
Fchen
London
City of
Portugal
New York
Chicago
New Orleans
Ouisville
SPORT
Western Canada
Atchison Globe
Allen's
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
Dob A Boyer
Trinity Springs
Ind
Hoxsie
Carter
MIT
Garters
Pommel
G&j
G & J Tire Company
Indianapolis, Ind
Brooklyn Citiz
Adil
Gro
W. Bowzzs
Baird
Mias
Ney
Ternone
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