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CONSTRUCTION WORK Is NOW
UNDER WAY

The high character of the new COM
munity is definitely and permanently as
sured by expert. careful planning and
wise protective restriction = including
paved streets. direct downtown bus service.
utilities and provision for shopping center.
The developers will set aside a limited
number of Homesites with a MINIMUM
FRONTAGE OF 20 FEET for those who
desire to take advantage of PRE-DE-
VELOPMENT PRICES. beginning at 10
cents PER SQUARE FOOT. with attractive
terms.
vices or the property has been provided
for prospective Home builders.
COMPLETE BUILDING SERVICE IN
CLUD1NG LONG-TERM FINANCING. IS
AVAILABLE.
Take advantage of this rare opportunity
by writing for COMPLETE ADVANCE
INFORMATION prior to public announce
ment.
Address Box 2-J. Star ONCE.
PARAMOUNT HEIGHTS, S75 up: easy
terms: help build. District 9170
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PHONE GEORGIA 5000 TILL o PM
OUTSTANDING VALUE.

DETACHED CHEVY CHASE. D. c.
Beautiful new S-room home in one Of
the best sections of Chevy Chase; large liv-
ing room with fireplace, library, dining
and large kitchen on first floor: private
bed rooms. baths on second floor; large
lot with brick garage This is the best buy
we have offered in months. Act quickly.
7 GappET pErTzEIJ
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L. T. GRAVATTE,

729 18th ST. Realtor. Natl. 0753.
Evening Phone. Georgia s079.
IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE UN-
USUAL in a home under $4,000. let us
show you this delightful detached brick
TUB AND SHOWER. STEP SAVER KIICH-
EN-. large tri-manteled fireplace: lovely,
wide lot. 74xl31, in Highland View; Care
free comfort with modern gas appliances.
WASHINGTON REALTY CO.,
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REAL ESTATE WANTED.
SUBURBAN PROPERTY FOR SALE

BUILDERS-WE HAVE A STRONG SALES
force and need new homes; also old home,
traded in. Cleveland 1904.
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THE HIGHLANDS.

1914 CONN. AVE. NV.
Front apt. or double living room. 2 bed
rooms. dining room kitchen and bath
electricity furnished; 24hour elevator
and switchboard service; dining room in
building.
LINKINS CO.,
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CHEVY CHASE. D. C..

Ten feet below the highest point of ele-
vatlon in the city. a charming detached
sun room: tiled lavatory and kitchen on
first floor: 4 full-sized bed rooms and 2
baths on second "a master bed room and
bath across front and one across rear: :
each bed room opens into 2nd-fioor hall:
automatic heat and electric refrigeration:
2-car built-in garage. Price. $1,000.
n CPANATTE
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NEW FOUR-FAMILY
ApAPTNIENT

AVAILABLE ABOUT APRIL Is.
4474-443S Conduit I'd. Nv, $50 to S55.
450O-4504 Conduit rd. NV. S49.50 to
s54.5O
Units consist of two rooms. dinette,
Kitchen. bath and porch. Heat included.
L. T. GRAVATTE,
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COLORED

R22 Goth st. n.e.--6-rm. brick home:
h.-w:h,, elec-. gas; newly papered and
800 cash. $40 mo e M AIKEN. 500 H
st. NV. Natl. 1856. Res Wise. 3293.
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INVESTMENT PROPERTY WANTED
OFFICES FOR RENT.
DESK SPACE WANTED.

SECOND. THIRD OR FOURTH FLOOR
25x10. modern bldg; elevator; very reaso
able rent. 1892 14th st. NV.
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HUNTINGTON TERRACE
On Old GEORGETOWN Rd l Mile
From Bank at Bethesda
LARGE LOTS.
$3.50 to $500
Small Cash Payment. Balance Monthly
Beautiful lots with plenty of shade,
electricity. Fully developed section. with
many attractive homes. Bus every Is min
utes; weekly pass. Sl.25
1900 Eye st. Met. 1850.
WOODSIDE PARK.
Three 15-ft.-wide lots on Dale drive:
nne trees. well drained; slope makes ideal
Tor daylight basement and built-in garage;
sewer. etc; very near Parkside School
special price on group. Shepherd 2145
open week ends and evenings.
BETHESDA, MD.
go beautiful building lots. high eleva-
IGN; ion; wafer sewerage. gas and electricity;
CYRUS KE1sER. Jr..
5211 Wisconsin Ave. Clev. 1871.
ADVANCE
INFORMATION.
well-known builder is developing
beautiful tract of land in nearby Mary
land north of Washington.
charge Of enhancing the natural beauty
OF the superb setting.
Far-reaching plans provide for the con-
structlon of a minimum of $50 homes of
the better type during 1897 and 1898;
each an individually designed Home of
charm and distinction.
CONSTRUCTION WORK Is NOW
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81. s4.750-NoRTHEAsT.
Modern six-room brick home. located
convenient to the new 9th and Florida
Ave. Market has been ref1nished like
hot-water heat hardwood floors. bright
cellar built-in garage: in fact. everything
70 make complete. comfortable home,
and l, at price extremely low to sell it
r M. HookER. Metropolitan 1853.
Evenings. to. Q. Call Adams 1880.
CHEVY CHASE-TH1S ATTRACTIVE NEW
brick home Is real dream. Seven large
baths. breakfast .alcove. center hall auto
Compare this value Builders Representa-:
tive. MR.. TWEED. National 0s56 until
NEW GROOM BRICK HOUSE. CONVEN-
lent to Wisconsin ave. shopping district:
automatic heat, 8 large bed rooms. furred
shan ssao6 sssdo rel buy osn aS5 sss ss
iea Estleaal Ssse mEEP Until pm 1ns Home FINDER
IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PARK
Most attractive new detached brick home
on corner lot for $9.25O. Six large rooms,
insulated: built-in garage: near transpor-
TWEED. National os56 until s pm. Wv
ATTRACTIVE CORNER HOME. GLOVER
Park-Six rooms. rear porcheS glass in
closed: excellent condition: 3 large bed
SS.950: consider trade. MIR. TWEED.
National OS56 until pm.
A NEW BRICK BUNGALOW WITHIN ONE
half block Of splendid parochial school.
Five rooms. tiled bath. hot-water heat.
slate roof full basement M noored attic:
lsss Msphsp9 4455 Until unsii u pm. INV WArLE I
JAMS. INC, -
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1405 WHITTIER ST. NV.
Apt. :}-3 rooms. kitchen dinette and
bath. back porch 3 exposures: concealed
radiation. soundproof walls; heat and hot
water furnished: rent. SO so.
5404 4TH ST. NV.
Ant. e. rooms kitchen. dinette and
bath. back porch: 3 exposures: thermostat
in your apartment; all rooms and closets
are large: vacant and open for inspection
today; adults only: rent. $3.50.
HARRY B. PITTS CO.
1919 18th St. NV. Met. 01OO.
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BUNGALOW.

22 It. wide; 8 rooms. built-in garage; IN
nice condition. A home any one would ap:
preciate. willing to sacrifice. must be sold
to settle estate See it at once:
OPEN DAILY TO 6 PM.
GE0PGE WHITE Adams l265
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DOWNTOWN.

5000 block 18th St NV rooms. kit,
dinette and, bath. Venetian blinds: cross
frigeratlon, ample closet space spacious
dinette: convenient to shopping center:
golf course express BUS line fa; sch9aoS;
AM lNA Randnlnh 2AlE
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HOUSES FOR SALE.

Near Alabama ave. Sc. modern brick
bungalow about 3 years old in new
house neighborhood. Well built. > rooms.
attic: large. bright basement. fireplace.
to school and transportation. Attractively
priced at S6950. Evenings. Mr Burnside.
FRANK S. PHILLIPS. DIST. 1411.
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DOWn In Puerto Rico

Down toward the equator, in the
sleepy little island city of Caguas,
Porto Rico, one-story reinforced
concrete houses-built to stand up
against either hurricanes or earth
Enthusiastically were placed at
the disposal Of the islands in
habitantS.
In Westmoreland county, Penn
sylvania, near the city of Green's
burg. only a few miles east Of
Pittsburgh, the residents Of West
moreland HomeSteads" share a
common chicken range. Instead
of cluttering up the backyardS
with chicken coops and hen houses,
they have all been grouped to-
gether on the outskirts Of the
community-a cooperative commu-
nifty, by the way, one Of so or so
to be managed by associations
formed by the inhabitants.
On the outskirts of HightStoWn,
N. j., 200 families, residents of
Jersey Homesteads, will work in
a cooperative garment factory or
at other occupations provided in
the midst of the community's 1900
acres of land, paying $25 month
rent for houses costing $1,000 to
build.
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Origin Forgotten

: Call it housing! The Govern
ment does. Housing for individ-
uals, housing for institutions. Pri.
Vate housing, public housing. All
Of it meaning work, expenditure
Of time and money, to keep the
relief wheels turning and get
Americans back to doing some.
thing useful for themselves and to
others, instead of raking leaves.
= Where it started no one seems
to know. The origin of the sub
Sistence-homestead idea. as it
blosSomed into being in the early
days of the New Deal, already has
vanished from view in the miStS
of antiquity. Over at the WPA,
so rapidly have events moved,
some of their own officials have
forgotten that WPA and CWA and
FERA and their emergency relief
cousins ever had anything to do
with subsistence homesteadS and
housing projects.
"Oh, yes! That's right! We
started those and turned them
over to the Resettlement Admin.
istratiOn, didn't we?"
They did at that. And now
Resettlement is going to be turned
over to Agriculture, but the COM
munities will go on, managed
presumably by their own coopera-
tive associations, as a passing
phase of the Governments relief
program.
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SO MILLIONS :
MORE TOGO
FOR WORK

Note-PdrkS, to1Cn halls,
Fairgrounds, GrmorteS S,
schools, hospitals, roads,
costing a total of t1Uo BILL
lion dollars, is only a part
of the Federal construction
program noa0 nearing its
end. Fifty millions more
for SubsiStence-homeStedd
projects! This article,
eighth of the housing series,
presents the passing phase
of housing and other forms
Of construction, as con-
ceired and carried ont by
the relief and rehabilitation
agencies of the Gouerm-
ment. The neat INSTALL
ments 7cilI tell you of the
Greenbelt to1CnS-the gar
den citieS-dnd the great
sIum clearance projects Of
the cities.
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limited-dividend to Federal and
finally to municipally-managed
housing projects as an outlet for
PWA funds, all with view Of
providing low-cost housing for
families with modest incomes, he
or his aides conceived the idea of
making Federal funds available
for institutional construction by
the States and cities and other
Governmental units. Hence the
police radio stations, hospitals,
town halls, armories, new roads,
parks, and what-nots built with
PWA funds and to some extent
with WPA labor. The sponsors
for the most part local communi-
ties-were required to put up part
of the cost or supply the materials
The heavy end of the labor load
was carried by PWA.
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BLunders Ignored

AS in the Charge of the Light
Brigade" someone had blum
dered." But to the country it
didn't matter. The tide of Fed
eral aid swept on. To the ad-
ministrators it mattered less. They
went on to something else, patch
ing up the blunders as best they
could. Houses were built, it is
true. Most of them we're occupied.
The RA reports showed that all
of the houses in the rural-agri-
cultural communities have been
occupied, so far as they have been
completed.
Some of the smaller projects
were completed in 1895: A much
larger number-and the larger
projects-were completed or near
ing completion in the final months
of 1896. The last Of them is
scheduled for completion by next
June.
Altogether between 40 and so
dollars will have been ex-
pended on the subSistence-home-
stead idea, as embodied in the
rural-agricultural and rural-indus-
trial communities, for the imme-
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Hopkins Reports

And here is what Hopkins re-
ported on this program in De
;ember:
"WPA workers have completed
more than $4,000 miles Of new
highway, road and street con-
structiOn and approximately 49,
600 miles are in course of COM
pletiOn. In addition to new road
construction, the highway pro-
gram includes the repair and
improvement of more than 12O,'
900 miles of roads and streets,
Of which 1855 miles had been
completed on date of report.
(These figures do not include
Pennsylvania, reports from which
had not been received.)
more than LOO elementary
or secondary schools had been
built by WPA labor and work
was in progress on over 700 ad.
ditiOnaI school buildings. In ad-
dition, repairs and improvements
had been made to or were in
progress of being made to mere
than 11,OOO existing school build
ingS. The school construction
ranges from One.rOOm rural
schools to large urban buildings.
"New buildings at institutions
of higher education, dOrmitOries,
laboratories, ETC., we're COM
pleted to the number of 21S and
80 more were under cOnStruc-
tiOn. Repairs and improvements
to this type of building had been
completed on 922 structures.
"WPA labor provided the
workers on more than 1,7OO hos
pitaI buildings, of which 295
were new construction and 1,451
in need of repairs and improve
ADVERTISEMENT
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WHATTo DO FOR
ECZEMA ITCHING
and BURNING

Wash the affected parts with
Resinol Soap and warm water to
soften scales and crusts. Resinol
Soap is suggested because it con;
tains no excess Of free alkali, and
is especially suited to tender skin.
Dry by patting with a soft cloth
do not rub.
Doctors recommend an oily oint-
ment because it penetrates the out
er layers of the skin more etfec-
lively. Resinol Ointment meets this
requirement, and does even more;
For over 40 years it has been-and
still is-successfully used to relieve
quickly the itching and burning OF
eczema. 1t contains soothing IN"
gradients that aid healing.
Use Resinol Ointment today and
enjoy comfort tomorrow. Get a jar,
also a cake of Resinol Soap, at any
drug store. For free sample, write
to Resinol Dept. !, Baltimore Nd
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Direction Divided

Except for four subsistence
homestead projects over which,
for some reason no one seems
able to explain, the WPA re-
tains Jurisdiction, the others have
been turned over to the Re
settlement Administration. This
was done under Prof. Rexford Tug
well. now one of the shining lights
of the molaSses industry. But the
record shows that more than half
of them were inherited by RIA
from PWA Administrator Harold
L. Ickes-probably in his other
capacity as Secretary of Interior
and IA of them from Relief Ad-
ministrator Harry Hopkins. The
others we're started by the RA
itself under the Tugwell regime.
WPA has kept control Of the
Matanuska Valley project near
Anchorage, Alaska, where legend
says potatoes grow to gigantic size,
but are so full of water, they can
almost be boiled in their own
moisture; DyesS Colony in Missis-
sippi county, Ark; the Cherry Lake
project in Madison county, Fla,
and the Pine Mountain Valley
project in Harris county, Georgia.
All of the others, designed to
house some 4,500 families when
completed and fully occupied, are
under the command of RA.
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By T. A. HUNTLEY

In Allen county, Indiana,
set in a sunny spot against a
background of tall trees, is a
new addition to the Children's
Home.
In Columbia City, Ind, the
State police take pride in a
new radio station of their
own. High-powered search
lights dominate it's walls. Be-
hind it the steel skeleton of
a wireless tower rears it's
head into the air, keeping the
substations and highway pa
troll always in touch with
headquarters.
Toledo, on the shore Of Lake
Erie, has a new naval armory
costing million dollars. PWA
money, WPA labor and salvaged
material went into its construction.
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Don't FORGET Norris

All, that is, but one! You al
most forget one of the earliest and
largest of all-the model town of
Norris, deep in the Appalachian
Highlands at Norris Dam, where
the Tennessee Valley Authority
has provided quarters for $50 fam
lilies as one facet of a planned
community, self-suStaining and
Self-Sufficient. This is probably
the only all-electrical town in the
country. There the houses are
even heated by electricity.
1t was Herbert Hoover who first
began talking about building pub
lie works during depreSsions to
take up the employment slack.
That was in 1922, when he was
Secretary of Commerce. Washing
tons $150,000,o00 triangle devel-
opment and Boulder Dam marked
the start. But it remained for
Ickes and Hopkins and Tugwell to
apply the principle nationally and
extend it to housing.
With 100000 farm families on
relief, IckeS and Hopkins both de-
cided to do something about it.
The subsistence homestead was
the result. No one cared much
about the cost. There were in
stances, as at Reedville (the Ar
thurdale projecD where the
houses, when they arrived in
knockdown form, didn't fit the
foundations-or the foundations
didn't fit the houses. At Red
House, likewise in West Virginia,
a planned community was so
badly planned that the cellars
were full of water. weeds grew up
through the floors, the walls
cracked and the cabbage grown
on the land wouldn't sell for
enough to pay for growing it.
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"WhGt's In a NGnue?"

Housing and relief! Recovery
and reform! The experts and re-
formers put it into single word.
They call it rehabilitation.
1 Thirty rural-agricultural COM
munities. Thirty rural.Industrial
communities. That is the admins
trative division. But where one
begins and the other leaves off,
it is difficult to tell, except in
charts and official statements.
Z Somewhere in the dim past
something of the same idea seems
to have occurred to several per-
sons simultaneously. in a Spon-
taneous combustion of inspiration
Perhaps several of them got to-
gether, talked it over, and then all
rushed out to be the first to get
1t going.
+ Mrs. Roosevelt. wife OF the
President, took a particular in
terest in the development of
Arthurdale, w. Va, and has been
credited with promoting, if not
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financed without Federal assist
ance.
But there will be housing-new
housing-low-cost housing-and
lots of it.
There will be slum clearance
work-plenty Of it. financed in
part by the National Government.
And there will be garden cities
how many no one can say. 1t
depends on local interest, initia-
tive, and workings of the Presi-
dents mind.
But leaf-raktng is over, and with
it the wild species Of spending on
meaningless or unimportant pub
lie works. Gradually the admin.
istrative minds of Washington are
converging on the thought that
good housing, for the masses Of
the country'S workers, whether on
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Meanwhile, some other things
were developing. Ickes had taken
over the RIGS limited-dividend
housing program and was going
in for slum clearance and low-cost
housing on a substantial scale.
Tugwell had stepped out as spon-
sor of the Greenbelt community
or garden city-an idea copied
from England. These projects
we're rushing toward completion
as the old year ended. They will
be treated subsequently in separ-
ate articles.
But Hopkins was not idle. There
were vast sums to spend for relief.
New construction was needed every
where. Where it wasn't needed a
demand was worked up. The cities
and States were told:
The money is here. Come and
get it,"
While Ickes was shifting from
I AnVERTISEMENT
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Flying Promoted

"The report shows that the
Nations network of AVIATION
fields had been increased by >
So new fields with 90 more in
course Of construction; that S6
existing landing fields had been
improved and repaired and that
work was progressing on 79
such fields"
Is this the passing phase OF
Federal activity-the hastily con-
ceived and executed portion Of
reform-and-recovery program? Or
is it the beginning of a new and
permanent order, in which the
Great White Father in Washing
ton will como to the aid Of the
States, counties, cities, villages
and rural regions whenever the
need ariseS-or whether it arises
or not? There are no answers.
It's no more than a guess. The
best guess is that as the country
RECEIVERS and men and women
get back to work at their ordi-
nary occupations, and as the re-
lief load becomes lighter and the
burden of caring for the unem-
ployables passes to other agen-
cies, most of this work will end.
Subsistence-homestead commu-
mites will go on, but it is prob
able that few. if any, new ones
will be started.
In the long run Americas cities
will have to build their own arm
ories and town halls and hospitals.
There will be Federal aid for
arterial highways, but the feeder
roads will have to be built and
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OF PROJECTS PROVED
IN ASSISTING NEEDY

ments. There were 179 new
buildings completed and 71O on
which repairs or improvements
were completed.
"a new construction program
involving 1,142 public buildings
for localities, counties and States
showed 725 completed and All
under way. Repairs and i'm
provements were made to 2,451
buildings of this type and were
in progress on 1,16S other build
ings. These buildings are used
primarily by administrative agen-
cies Of cities and counties and
include city halls, cOurthOuses,
jails, etc.
Sanitary needs of localities
were provided for in the COM
pletiOn of 3,263 miles Of new
sewers and the repair Of 1,447
miles. New construction under
way at the time of the report
aggregated 1,242 miles and re-
pairs were in progress on 533
miles of old sewers.
"WPA activities in the field
Of recratiOn show $50 new
parks, ranging from one to
several hundred acres In ex-
tent, had been completed and
turned over to localities for
use, and that 567 more were in
course Of completion. Improve
mentS had been made to 1888
parks and work was progress
ing on 951.
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date benefit of their 5000 fami-
lies. That includes RIA and WPA
programs, but excludes TWAS town
of Norris and the PWA projects
in Puerto Rico and elsewhere. 1t
figures out at about $4,000 a fam
ily-for the house, the homestead
and all the facilities. A good deal
of it will come back in rentals or
purchase money. The rest will be
charged off.
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Provided Work

Construction alone, under Ickes
and Hopkins, had accounted for
two billion dollars up to the end of
the year. This wasn't housing in the
sense of providing living quarters
for families. It was institutional
construction-public construction
community construction. But it
was building, and it required labor,
and it gave the communities for
the most part something they
wanted but hadn't undertaken
themselves and didn't want to
undertake without assistance.
Here is Hopkins tabulation of
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subsistence Combine Federal Housing Program With Relief

the farms or in the cities, and
all prices they can pay, offers
the best hope Of a cure for its
social and economic ills.
Ito Be COntinued)
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If you Suffer With
Kidney Trouble
Ito Be COntinued)

Headache, backache, unusual thirst are
symptoms that point to kidney trouble.
For over 80 years physicians have en-
dOrsed Mountain Valley Mineral Water
direct from famous Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Phone for free booklet today.
Mountain Valley Mineral Water
MET. 1862 14O5 X st. n. W.
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initiating, the program Of rural
industrial towns in which the
residents find work on the land
when there is no work in the
factories-and vice versa. At least
she helped it along.
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the cold from Within helps build strength the
reputation Father Johns Medicine cold.
this fact Keep iton hand at ali times.
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When You Neglect Colds
You Risk Serious Illness
Fight Them From Within With
Father Johns Medicine

If you are subject to one cold after an
other, don't get discouraged, but keep on
treating it, because a neglected cold can
lead to more serious conditions.
Do as millions have done for over 80 years
lake Father Johns Medicine. It fights
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Federal construction by classified
tons.
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Plenty of Money

off
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