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Title: Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Richardson, Darby.
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Publisher: (Flushing, N.Y.) : Darby Richardson
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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e some of themfor you. And Why I live in Flushing, as told by Ellis Parker Butler,could well be told over and over by many thousands of happy and con-tented home-dwellers who have found rest and peace and quietude here.Other articles by Flushing men and women will tell you what Flushingis doing. Read them all—their wholesomeness is refreshing, and theymay lead you on to the Road to Happiness. IN SEARCH OF A HOMEAssuredly there is no more wretched, cooped-up, cigar-box dwelling on the faceof the globe than the average New York apartment house. Every year ceilings arelower and rents higher. The buildings are uncomfortable, depressing, and if notphysically unsanitary they are most unhealthy for the mind. And yet, as one walks through the city, one is constrained to believe that it islargely the cliff dwellers fault. He insists upon following the crowd, packing intoapartments hardly large enough for a healthy cat. —Editorial in New York Globe, July 9, 1917. The answer is—Flushing. 3
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