Improve Your Golf

"From the moment you walk off the 18th green - whether your score was 100, 90 or even 80 - you're in the grip of an insatiable urge to improve even more…to make par your servant instead of your master." 

Good Reading Rack Service, 1959

Tommy Armour Tells You How to Play Your Best Golf

"Comparatively few golfers understand the circumstances that dictate use of the respective clubs. The governing principle is to use the club that will get the ball from tee to green in the easiest, surest manner." 

Good Reading Rack Service, 1956

How to Get Honest Appliance Repairs

"There are 375,000,000 electrical appliances in America's homes. About three-quarters of a million men earn a living installing, servicing and repairing these appliances, which are becoming progressively more complex as manufacturers attempt to make them more automatic and labor-saving. These machines, therefore, need more servicing and demand more training and skill of repairment, who in turn must charge high rates." 

A Help-Your-Self Booklet, 1959

Before You Call the TV Repairman

"Talk to any busy TV serviceman and he'll tell you that he makes many unneccessary calls. The repairs were simple, perhaps a minor adjustment or loose connection. The set owner could just as well have made them himself. The job may have taken the serviceman only a few minutes. But his fee must include traveling time, too. So far as the set owner is concerned, the charge is out of proportion to the service rendered. Because of this, it will pay you to become familiar with some of the more common trouble symptoms that ocur in a television receiver." 

Popular Science Publishing Co. Inc., 1957

When Not To Do It Yourself

"A few months ago, in the heart of New York's do-it-yourself belt on suburban Long Island, Malcolm Brewer decided to install an attic fan in his new home. This job was a chinch, he thought, and he'd save the cost of an electrician. As it turned out, it cost Mr. Brewer his life. His hands wet with perspiration when he touched a live wire, he took the full force of the current and was electrocuted." 

Good Reading Rack Service, 1955

Fix It Yourself

Good Reading Rack Service, 1958

Tips on Home Plumbing

"There is really nothing mysterious or difficult to understand about the plumbing in your house. In essence, it is simply a set of pipes that bring water into the house and another and larger set to carry water and waste material out to some form of disposal system." 

Good Reading Rack Service, 1956

Magic with Unfinished Furniture

"If you've dimissed the big bargains that are to be had in unfinished furniture because it's cheap looking, hear this: By a few simple operations you may be able to give it the quality appearance you want, and make it real furniture for any room in the house. What's more, you can give it added features to improve its usefulness." 

A Help-Your-Self Booklet, 1959

How-To Ideas on Home Remodeling

"I sure with we could do something about this house! But I don't know where to begin!" The place to begin is right where you're sitting. Before you can get practical help, you have to do a bit of armchair work yourself." 

A Help-Your-Self Booklet, 1959

Tips for the Home Handyman

Includes how to make a patio chair, how to create a beach in your back yard, how to build a fence and ideas for upstairs. 

Good Reading Rack Service, 1955

So You're Going to Paint Your House!

"For the average individual the most important purchase he makes in a lifetime is his own home. Nothing is nearly so important to the protection of that major investment than proper paint maintenance. The time to begin such maintenance is as soon as the original paint shows signs of deterioration."

Good Reading Rack Service, no date 

How to do Indoor Painting

"Is there a paint job that needs doing around your home? If so, you can groan and bear it, while deterioration continues at an accelerated pace. Or you can hire a professional to do the job. Or you can pitch in and do it yourself, with assurance of handsome results if you follow a few basic rules." 

Good Reading Rack Service, 1956

How to Use Concrete Around the House

"There are many things you can make out of concrete without being and expert, and at very little cost. You will enjoy making them and get a big kick out of their home-made usefulness and performance." 

A Help-Your-Self Booklet, 1959

75 Ideas for Neater Living

"Advantages of Neater Living: You save time. You save money. You save energy. Cleaning is easier." 

Alumni Offset Inc. and Richard Hall, 1953