Brick Pavement Study Promises Savings and Durability
The Department of Agriculture reports tests by the Bureau of Public Roads at Arlington Virginia show 4 inch brick pavement can last as long as 18 years of average highway use and may reduce brick thickness, with potential savings of about four million dollars to taxpayers. The tests involved sections with 4 inch and thicker bricks on a heavy traffic track, proving 4 and 2 1/2 inch bricks meet durability standards for lighter traffic.
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Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Public Roads
Arlington
United States
Fotlows
Bureau of Public Tans
United States Department of Agriculture
John Santth
Che Yilve
Federal Bureau
Tollche
Apiington
Dourthard
Th le
Nebraska Association Seeks Higher Road Tax
The Nebrashy Good Kogus association urges raising the gas tax from 2 to 3 cents and imposing a county road levy of 1 mill for state highway construction records show a proposed four member highway commission with a chief engineer. The plan includes allocating 10 percent of license fees for maintenance and building county roads bridges and other features.
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Abba
Ydeens & Gillon
Nmuubers
Nun-Po- Aithatlig Diayneter
Delyyay
Ohio to Enid Detouring on Roads Under Repair
A new program by the Atlantic State highway department will establish detours on Winds where bridges are being constructed and roads rebuilt. Detours will be short and temporary where new routes are created and will be opened promptly for limited traffic while repairs proceed.
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Ohio
Enid
Otlantate Highway Department
Honored by Highway Under a Delusional Plan
A distorted passage describes a proposed public safety project spanning several states and involving a transportation agency. It mentions a large bridge or structure, a route from New York to San Tenetsen, and a roadbed of significant width. The text is garbled but implies an ambitious, possibly unsafe, infrastructure scheme.
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New York
Stower Vyehlles
Oo Parkway
Jrluwivital Grees
Walter the Miser Who Learned to Share
A stingy boy named Walter never spends, always wants others to do for him. Peter Gnome visits Walter at night and warns him that his selfish ways will end with loneliness and mockery. Walter is challenged to share and change, learning the value of giving.
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Walter
Ike
Aeford
Peter Goome
Peter Gnote
Peter Gnome
Peter Gnomle
Peter
Hotel Stenographer and House Detective Clash in Studio Talk
A hotel stenographer voices a dream of income and stable life amid a party of artists. The house detective disputes the idea, deriding studio atmosphere and glamor while noting misused terms and elusive art. A snippet also mentions Gaelic study efforts in the Scottish highlands funded by American money.
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Kelly
From Drug Store Clerk to Lumber Magnate James D. Lacey’s Rise
A memoir snippet traces James D. Lacey’s path from earning seven dollars weekly as a drugstore clerk at twenty one to saving ten thousand dollars by thirty. He pivots after tariffs devalue stocks, then buys a drugstore, travels as a peddler, and eventually becomes a leading lumber figure with offices in Chicago and New York and a South American trade reach.
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Kaplas
Big Gay
James D. Lacey
New York
South America
Lacey
McClure
Why of Superstitions and the Wedding Ring Fetish
Irreverent vignette by Irving King on curing a sty with a wedding ring and the deeper sun worship symbolism. The essay traces ring lore from ancient rites to modern superstition, noting the ring’s sacred status and the sun motif in a curious folk belief.
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Ubelski
Central Park
Belkopalis
Sanda
Withii
McClure Muwavaner
SAWS By Viola Brothers Shore
A fragmentary passage discusses local economics and dining at a restaurant scene with notes on value and service. It mentions services for money, a house where work occurs, and observations about luck and perception, ending with a brief note on automobile reflector materials and metals.
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Avia Hays Dobuuend
Adilonmre
Washington News Toys' Club
Mr. Hammon
Near East Orphan Schools
Thes S. Binslowa
Ex- Port Steamship Company
Near Lost
Atchbishop
Polycarpus
Kanthi
Greece
Pretty Eyelina Keun
Loalstasuy
Uncle Sam
Turcony Mils Sign
Edith Nourse Rogers
Massachusetts
Washington
Zoreh Tanong
Weldury
Persia
America
Juno
Albright
Juso
Tie Bears
Yellowstone Najtioial Park
Lani
Horace M. Albright
Guy Good-Py
Nebraska Association
Roe Fulker
Scottish Highlands
Joseph Kaye
Atante
Anton Vaverka
SX Ossient
Vaverka
Franz Josef
Sties
Viola Brothers
Goodsie
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