Good Highways Chart Shows Labor Wage Trends by District
Bureau of Public Roads with USDA produces a chart on common labor wages for highway construction since 1916. The study notes wage ranges from 12 to 26 cents in 1916, rising to 81 to 2 cents in 1920, and then varying by region with current rates from 15 to 47 cents. Regional figures include 15 cents in the South Atlantic, 18 cents east of the Ohio and Mississippi, 24 cents in Texas Arkansas Oklahoma and Louisiana, 26 cents between the Ohio and Mississippi, 29 cents Kansas Missouri to the Canadian border, 6 cents in the mountain states, and 47 cents in the Pacific.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Publi
South Atlantic
Ohio
Mississippi
Alabama
Texas
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Kansas
Missouri
Canadian
Mountain States
Pacific States
Hagianil
Middle Atlantic
Missouri Nerth
Surveys lessen road cost by material tests nationwide
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture, road material surveys across several states help contractors bid more accurately and lower construction costs. The program locates stone, gravel, sand, slag and other materials, tests samples, and compiles data on accessibility and freight rates, reducing risk and often yielding lower bids. The Bureau of Public Roads has tested about 9,000 samples and reports locations and results, with 63 laboratories currently testing road materials and growing activity even where surveys are not intensive.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Public Roads
Lower road construction costs estimated for federal aid
Report from the Bureau of Public Roads shows predicted lower level prices for 280 miles of federal aid roads. Average costs per mile include grading and drainage at 9 150, concrete at 20 000, bituminous dam and asphalt at 25 200, and bituminous concrete at 25 000 per mile.
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Bureau of Public Roads
United States Department of Agriculture
Pay It Out of Taxes Georgia Whomong Expenditures Report
A garbled early draft outlines a plan to fund expenditures of 75 million dollars through statewide tax measures. It mentions on budget constraints and revenue sources but lacks clear specifics on methods or authorities. The fragment suggests a tax based approach to finance state expenditures.
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Georgia
Highway Cost Per Person Reflects Toll Burden
A fragmented note estimates the per person cost of the American highway system after motorists paid federal and state fees. It notes the toll-like charge was one and nine tenths cents per mile for individual riders, highlighting the burden on families in the country last year.
Experimental highway work at Arlington to continue
The Arlington experimental station near Washington reports a broad season program in road building research by the Bureau of Public Roads. Experiments cover bituminous wearing surfaces wear tests on concrete bases and subgrade studies using circular runs and special trucks to simulate traffic. Over 120 road sections plus new impact testing aim to relate laboratory results to in service wear and support conditions.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Arlington Experimental Station
Washington, D. C
Bureau of Public Roads
Jane
Bureau
Artington Experimental Station
Rat Pest Seen as Major Farmer Loss
The piece warns that rats remain a serious threat to farmers and poultry workers despite campaigns and propaganda. It urges intensified efforts to rid premises of rats, noting their persistence signals need for renewed control measures.
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Rita
Shade for Poultry Shelters in Hot Weather
Farmers seek shade for poultry including ducks geese poults and turkeys. Suggested shade sources include bushes orchard grove and burlap bag covers stretched on netting to shelter flocks from sun. Emphasizes need for fresh water alongside shade and mentions Soha as a breeder.
Great Value of Buckwheat as Feed and Cover Crop
Buckwheat serves as excellent chicken feed and can be sown with Simit patches. It can be fed to hogs and provide fly stock benefits. The straw compares to oat straw and the crop helps improve poor land, adding value when plowed into soil.
Remedy for Sucking Pests in Garden Insects
A brief guide notes kerosene emulsion is a comedy for sucking pests, though nicotine sulfate now predominates against melon louse and squash bug. Both act as contact poisons, requiring thorough leaf coverage. Ingestion is not poisonous.
All White Skirts and Hats Dominate Summer Style
Separate skirts and hats swing to white or white with simple stripes as the season favors cool, crisp all white outfits. Lightweight silks, linen, and crepes lead sportswear with wide brims and poke-bonnet inspired contours, while hats mix fabric and straw with orchid, pearl gray, almond, and new ambre brown tones.
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Witte Crepe
Mystery Man Shows Double Brain Writing Ability
Hayward Thompson, an ex service man in Denver, Colorado, writes with both hands due to a head injury in the war. His memory only extends to the time after he left a hospital months ago, leaving his life before that hidden. The Veterans Bureau and Colorado American Legion assist in tracing his past.
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Hayward Thompson
Denver
Colo
Thompson
Veterans’ Bureau
Colorado Department of the American Legion
The Unknown Soldier and a Hidden Hero Smithy’s Silent Grave
A Baltimore foundling raised as Edward John Trangelist Smith joins the Marines in 1917 and falls in World War I. He serves with the Fifth Regiment of Marines and dies on the day the armistice is signed. His identity remains unknown, yet his story mirrors the silent grief of mothers who never learn their son’s fate.
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Tregic
Lits
Baltimore
Edward John Trangelist Smith
Mount Saint Mary's School
Mount Mary
Smith
Fifth Regiment of Marines
Smitly
Wells Hawkes
Raiptain
Schoenl
Mle Yenl
Wounded on Armistice Day Naval Lieutenant Rolf of Toledo
Rolf of Toledo Ohio, a naval lieutenant and former merchant ship executive, was wounded in action after the Armistice. His ship was fired on by a German submarine as it left Polis Maine on November 7 1918. He spent months in hospitals in England and on the continent before returning to practice law in Toledo.
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QO. D. Rolf
Toledo
United States
Iolf
Li Polis
Meanee
England
Gontioent
Dolf
America
Soldiers and sailors barred from voting in several states
A writer in Legion Weekly notes restrictions on military voters. The piece highlights that soldiers and sailors are not allowed to vote in Indiana Missouri Nebraska North Dakota Ohio Oregon Texas and West Virginia, reflecting widespread disenfranchisement in the era.
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Who Found Her Photo Harret Clinn Indiana Soldier Mystery
A World War I era query asks which veteran found a photograph of Miss Harriet Clinn of Indiana after battles around Chateau Thierry St Mihiel or the Argonne. The photo shown was made from the same plate as the scarred one sought by the Legion in Indianapolis headquarters.
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Nny
Avy
Dusty Engineers
Gimrtes Master Corps
Mae
Task Corps
Balloon Corpa
Ate
Harret Clinn
Indiana
Chateau Thierry
St. Mihiel
Argonne
Lowell
Legion
Indianapolis
Tod
Sixteen Hours in Freezing Sea Earns Heroic Medal
Philp J. Burger, a second class gunner's mate on the destroyer Jacob Jones, spent eighteen hours aboard a lifeboat after the ship was torpedoed off Lands End in December. He saved a shipmate and is awarded both the Portuguese government Medal and the American Distinguished Service Medal. Now in Troy New York, he trains for work and serves in the Noble Callahan post of the American Legion.
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Ufe
Lila
Philp J. Burger
Burger
Jacob Jones
Lands End
England
Troy
Noble Callahan
The
American Legion
No Job Blood Hero of Omaha Aiding Stranger
Jed W. Smith of Omaha amid Nebraska farm work and hospital service offered blood to save a dying man in an Omni hospital in France. Despite unemployment and family needs, his selfless act earned praise as a true hero beyond his modest life.
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Lerdie
Jed W. Smith
Omaha
Nebraska
France
Omni
Pred Smith
Hlaad
Carrying On With the American Legion
A Douglas county Legion project aims to refresh Tracy area tourist park for summer with volunteer work from post members. The group adopts the phrase Staying Data Legion to replace the familiar S. O. 1. In New York Grant's Tomb a tree was transplanted from General Grant's Missouri home by the Legion and the Marion Forestry Association.
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America Legion Post
Tracy
Mino
Douglas County Legion Ouires
Omaha
Data Legion
Grant
New York
Missouri
The
Legion
Mariianorestry Association
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