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Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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er the German Empire, a small, freeballoon is sent up every morning, be-tween seven and eight oclock, and it$course in the air is followed as long aspossible with a theodolite. The ballooncarries no instruments and no aeronaut;it is simply a wind-indicator. Each sta-tion telegraphs the results of its observa-tions to the headquarters of the servicleat Lindenberg, near Berlin. Here theobservations are assembled and charted,and a bulletin is telegraphed to aeronaut-ical centers throughout the country, ad-vising aerial navigators of the kind ofwinds they are likely to encounter withiha few hours after the time of the report.The forecaster also has reports from theordinary weather stations of Germanyand adjacent countries, and these, incombination with the balloon observa-tions, enable him to predict severe stormsin the upper air. A similar institution is about to be es-tablished in France, and other countriesare sure to follow in the near future. July, 1913 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS Vll
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AUGUST NUMBER OF AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDEN THERE are few problems in domestic architecture ofgreater interest to the American home-builder that thatof the remodeled house. In these days of overcrowdedcities, when the true homemaker seeks the greater quietof suburban and rural districts as a tonic for the nerve-strainincident to our over-keyed business life, the house in thecountry makes an appeal to one too strong to be denied.It is not possible for everyone to build from foundationto chimney-top a house for himself, but many of us find thatthe old-fashioned homes of others will, with a little re-modeling, give us premises as delightful as any we mighthave planned to our fancies. EVERY year an issue of American Homes has devoteda number of pages to articles dealing with the subject ofremodeled houses. In the August number of AmericanHomes the opening article (by Mr. Joseph Bernard Pear-man) will describe an old Dutch Colonial house of historicalinterest in Hackensack, New Jersey. The

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