Public billboards clash over highway beautys fate
A lengthy editorial discussion contrasts U S promoters of roadside advertising with city planners and road officials. It cites Rome governor Boncompagni, Chief MacDonald, and the American Association of State Highway Officials, arguing for stronger limits on highway signs to protect scenic views and reduce driver distraction. It notes pushback from advertisers and newspapers like the New York Times and Saturday Evening Post, and calls for legal action to curb billboards while balancing property rights and public safety.
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Moorfield
South ‘Carolina
Rome
Associated Press
Prince Boncompagni Sudovisi
American Association of State Highway Officials
Woah
Stone & Webster
Stone & ‘Webster
New York Times
Krent
Mefarn
Satury Evening Post
Stone & Webber
Sen Yors
Pan American Highway Plans Advance in Congress
Congress weighs nearly 3 billion dollars for federal aid highway construction this year as eight bills push a Pan American route. The plan aims to link North and South America with continuous paved highways, enabling Canadians and Americans to vacation driving through the Americas in the years ahead.
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United States
Europe
Congress
Entral
United’States
North
South America
Looking Ahead to a New Year of Hope and Self Improvement
A reflective piece urges readers to value progress in knowledge education and civic systems while embracing potential for the next decade. It emphasizes personal responsibility humility and self scrutiny as paths to happiness and collective improvement.
Billboards and All That Sort of Thing in South Carolina
Admiral Sam McGowan complains about billboard advertising in a foreword style essay, arguing advertisers share responsibility with site owners. A satirical tale, the piece references a billboard fable about Bills board bill and human vanity, ending with a prompt to send in job printing.
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Sam McGowan
Sam
South Carolina
Wisner
South’ Carolina
Bill
Ad vancement of pee society plans New York gathering
The American Association for the Advancement of ... in New York City during the last week of the year. The society has over 16,500 members including men and women from all branches of learning. It notes that sacrifice is needed in peace as in war.
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Roofither American Association, For the
New York City
True Patriot Paul R Nets Invents Submarine Mine Control
Paul R Nets of the Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Totten New York has developed a submarine mine control device and donated it to the army. The invention is described as very valuable and its circulation is discussed alongside a census of mental deficiency outside correctional institutions in Magazines.
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Paul R. Nets
Coast Artillery Corps
Fort Totten
N.Y
Army
Clus
Correctional Institutiona
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