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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1922
Page
8
The United States Department of Agriculture reports that methods for calculating stresses and sizing skew bridges, long used as standard practice, are incorrect and risk collapse. The Bureau of Public Roads and state highway departments jointly oversee federal aid structures and are studying the issue.
Former Superintendent 8 E Bradt of Deksalb Ht notes engineers shifted from 1¢-foot highways to 16 feet and now 18 foot shoulders. He cites experts backing a 20-foot highway for trunk routes due to shoulder maintenance costs. Heavy truck traffic makes upkeep high.
As roads improve and dairy routes expand dairy traffic shifts toward paved highways. Milk moves farther as motor trucks replace wagon delivery, with 15 mile routes on unimproved roads and up to 40 miles on paved highways. More farmers await hard surfaced roads to reach markets efficiently.
The federal government plans to spend twenty million dollars in the coming year on Pacific coast highways and port roads, a record outlay for the region. Washington, Oregon, California and other western states will receive similar funding. The proposed routes feature wide, heavy concrete pavements to replace older interstate roads.
A brief note argues good roads reduce living costs and boost prosperity culture and happiness for people, claiming road improvements have more to offer than political campaigns. The text endorses nationwide road development as essential to economic and social well being.
Transcript fragment notes that motor truck lines will stimulate farming communities, raise production of food, cut living costs, and help public markets succeed in American cities. The text cites benefits to markets and communities through better distribution and lower prices.
Washington officials report part of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing will close for an inventory of stock valued in the millions. About 1,600 of 6,000 bureau employees would be affected, with roughly six hundred serving as counters while others on annual leave receive benefits. The move aims for quicker, more accurate checks, and officials deny widespread fraud.
Texas Democrat Blanton sparks near riot after Rep Garner labels him a liar during debate on stationery and mileage allowances. Sommers joins with insult, sergeant at arms intervenes as cries of throw him out echo. Blanton defends himself while graft charges about 89 allowances fuel the clash.
The piece outlines Henry Cabot Lodge seeking a sixth Senate term as Democrats plan a concentrated campaign against him in Massachusetts. It notes Lodge as a respected yet controversial figure with influential backers and foes, and mentions hostility to his re election as a key political storyline. The Democratic National Committee aims to mobilize speakers and funds, viewing Lodge as the primary obstacle to their objectives.
The text outlines Prince Otto as de jure King of Hungary after Charles’s death but notes he holds no allegiance until crowned in Budapest. It discusses possible regency by Queen Zita’s ally, Maximilian, and the likelihood that foreign powers determine Austria-Hungary’s future governance during Otto’s minority.
The senate calls for feasibility studies on creating a United States Academy for Aeronautics and whether existing military or naval facilities can host separate aeronautics schools. It also asks if a Navy yard or arsenal could become a government plant to develop and manufacture aircraft for national, commercial, and defense uses.
Governor Reily W T Kessinger and secretary John Hull are accused in a Porto Rico grand jury presentment of misusing public funds. Withdrawals totaling 4400 at year end and 500 each in August and October funded Washington and island inaugurals. Congressional debate followed, with Cordova Davila urging an investigation and calling Reily unfit, while Puerto Rican officials from the Socialist bloc praised him as just and honorable.
Prohibition chief John D. Appleby says American distilled spirits worth over 1 billion dollars in bootleg channels and 00 million in legitimate market may return to the United States under Willis Campbell act provisions passed last November. The measure, aimed at halting medicinal beer, could allow reimport of liquor from bonded warehouses and original packages, extending supply for nonbeverage uses.
At a National Democratic club dinner in New York James M Cox urged continuing the push for U S entry into the League of Nations. He blamed the current administration for not supporting international movements begun by the league and said the league remains the sane path for U S foreign policy.
A New York Sun writer hails Colonel D E Estrampes, famed friend of Americans, for his flamboyant charm in Havana. Born in New Orleans, he rose from rough beginnings to a celebrated orator, congressman, and wartime colonel who uses influence to aid visiting Americans and Cuban friends alike.
A Mexican government effort to educate Indians in remote communities will begin with 100 instructors. Professor Laura Catocn will inspect regional rates and select teachers fluent in the Tudian language as part of a 250000 peso appropriation for initial work.
A reshuffled card deal uses marked backs and 12 indicators to create four equal hands, enabling new play. An old-timer recalls a damp May day in the Philippines when guards failed to raise the nation’s colors before sunset, leading to a tense, strategic moment at the flagpole with a Leatherneck present.
The fragment depicts a tense exchange where a youth named Robert or Bobby is accused of slipping a pack of cigarettes into a pocket and told to surrender them at once. Miss Grinun is addressed, and a remark implies prior ignorance of smoking habits.
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