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...significance of Halle Bros, to Cleveland has been the company's pioneering. When no Cleveland merchant dared to try to open a store more than nine blocks from the Cleveland Public Square, Halle Bros, spent several million dollars for a pioneering building on Euclid Avenue at 13th St. This was in 1910 and not even Halle Bros, dared leave Euclid Ave., then as now the one and only Cleveland thoroughfare with a semblance of metropolitan smartness...
...Halle Annex, opened last week, is also a pioneering building. It faces two streets other than Euclid Ave., and connects to the main store by tunnel. Huron Road and Prospect Ave. in Cleveland have been streets of warehouses, Greek restaurants, hardware stores, down-payment jewelry shops, raggle-taggle merchandisers, etc. Samuel H. Halle will bring shoppers to these streets, will perhaps cause Cleveland to take on a more metropolitan aspect...
...Bridge of Asses," fifth proposition of Greek Geometrist Euclid (third century B. C.), showing that the sum of the squares of the sides of a right triangle equals the square of the hypotenuse, so-called because when it is reached by the average geometry class, asinine pupils stumble...
...Euclid Village, on the outskirts of Cleveland, Ohio, adopted a zoning ordinance to regulate the location of industrial buildings, stores, apartments, double and single houses, the size of lots, the height of buildings. A realty company brought suit, seeking to have the ordinance declared void. It finally reached the U. S. Supreme Court, which last week handed down a decision upholding the validity of zoning regulations. Justices Butler, McReynolds and Van Devanter dissented. Forthwith, many villages and cities began to look at their skylines and contemplate more stringent regulations...
...Euclid Village, O., one Joseph Koman, 71, and one Frank Rupor, 68, shared the chores on a farm. Both had spent their strength; in the perpetual lassitude of old age they pottered and dug and weeded. Sometimes one did more than the other, and then little fights ensued in which the old man who had been for that day the most energetic berated his friend for letting him spend the little energy that life had left to him. One day last week Koman went out to feed the ducks. Rupor followed him querulously, complained that he wasted food, showed favoritism...