R.F.D.
THE GRANDPAPPY of all government services to become known by initials is R. F. D. which, everybody knows, stand for Rural Free Delivery. It began in West Virginia in 1896 as an experiment by the Postmaster General, and in one year expanded to 29 states. Today there are over 32,500 routes which serve 8,192,545 families.
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Mobile Home Expands to Form Three Rooms
Light and compact enough to be drawn behind a motor car like a trailer, a movable type of house can be expanded to form three rooms at its destination. On the road it is supported on two wheels with drop axle and is sixteen feet long and six and one-half feet wide.
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New Household Devices
Appliances, Machines, and Utensils Invented to Save Labor and Add to the Comfort of the Home
Sweeping the kitchen is simplified by a sanitary dust chute of steel built into the baseboard. A swinging door opens at the touch of a foot lever, and sweepings go down the chute to the basement.
The curtain “hold-back” at the right consists of a curved metal arm pivoted on a support fastened to the window frame. It draws back the curtain to admit more light.
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Home on a Train
SOME hobbyists let their hobby occupy them night and day. Well, the reverse is true of Dr. John Payne Roberts. He occupies his hobby!
For Dr. Roberts and his wife make their home in an old railroad car which is a prize exhibit of the Museum of Transport, located in Kirkwood, on the western outskirts of St. Louis. The Museum contains a remarkable collection of old railroad equipment.
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Making HOME TASKS a PLEASURE
Hassock with Rounded Pillow Which Serves as an Arm, or Back Rest, and Book Holder Consisting of Chromium-Plated Scroll Spring; When Book Is Removed, Spring Comes Forward to Hold Remaining Volumes.
Left, Venetian Blind Brush with Adjustable Wool Fingers Which Fit between Slats; It Can Be Washed; Right, Thermometer Which Tells When Roast Is Rare, Medium or Well Done; It Is “Cooked” with the Meat”.
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Hurricane House Turns with Wind
WEATHER-VANE DWELLING DESIGNED FOR BOTH SAFETY AND COMFORT
By CARL WARDEN
WHEN raging storms whip across the land, accompanied by violent gales that uproot trees, tear the roofs from houses, and turn a trim countryside into a scene of desolation, there could probably be no safer refuge than the interior of a novel hurricane house designed by Edwin A. Koch, New York City architect. Streamline in the form of a mammoth teardrop, this amazing dwelling would revolve automatically to face into the oncoming storm, meeting it like the wing of an airplane and passing it smoothly around its curving sides toward its pointed tip.
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