Good Roads Measure Draws from Bills and Statutes
Iowa House roads and highways committee introduced a permanent highway improvement bill. It echoes recent bills and existing statutes, creating districts, assessing property, and routing funding from local, county, and state sources with state highway commission oversight.
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Attorney General's Office
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Breckway
Board of Supervisors
State Highway Commission
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Wilson's First Message Urges Tariff Reform for 1918
President Wilson, in a brief message to Congress, calls for tariff revision to fit modern economic conditions. He argues tariffs have become protective monopolies, urges elimination of privileges, and prioritizes genuine competition to restore prosperity and free trade. The address signals future banking reform but focuses now on tariff changes to open free channels of prosperity.
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Washington
Congress
Wilson
Senate
Bouss
House of Representatives
Americas
Bome
Woodrow Wilson
White House
Rose symbol arrives in Hagland from Italy in 15th century
Fragmentary note traces the rose as a long overlooked emblem of Hagland, arriving from Italy in the early 1400s. It mentions rose trees being brought and planted, with portions garbled or missing.
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Italy
Hagland
Poetry, Pranks and Pioneers in Unlikely Places
William Gillette recalls a theater mishap during Booth's company days in which a substitute actor wore a mantle and delivered the poison line with no lines left to learn, prompting a quip about the “poetry stuff.” Montrose seeks aviation status drawing old ladies’ warnings, while a Dean Ramsay note recalls gas versus oil fears and questions about whales.
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William Gillette
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Empire Theater
Booth
Staga
San
Montrose
Scotland
London Chronicle
Dean Ramsay
Suffrage portrait show at Glazer galleries in New York
John Sloan recounts a story about the Aude in art at the suffrage portrait show. An old farmer and his wife visit an exhibition where the Aude predominates and are impressed by the white gleaming pictures. The old man remarks on not expecting such value.
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Glaenzer
New York
John
Sloan
Aude
Mr. Sloan
Hannah
Guy de Maupassant as Clerk in French Education Office
A fragment referring to Guy de Maupassant in a clerk role within a French education office. Mentions the subject and a junior clerk, with unclear context or full sentence.
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Guy" de Mauprasant
Guy de Maupassant
Bear’s Grease and Baldness Through the Ages
A reminiscence argues baldness is more common now due to reduced use of bear’s grease pomade. Early pomades were chiefly lard based and scented. Hairdressers once advertised the slaughter of a bear with a graphic canvas showing a brown animal dying in a sea of gore.
Costly City Improvements in Demolitions
A New York City borough sees heavy demolitions as 819 buildings were torn down last year and a gas tank raised the total to 820. The total front feet of houses demolished reached 24 875, about four miles. Nine of ten destroyed structures were four stories high.
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Manhattan
New York City
A Winner If At du Easter breakfast Rockefeller quote
John D. Rockefeller Jr made a quip about perseverance at an Easter breakfast. He noted perseverance conquers all, yet added humor about a hen on an egg of porcelain persevering.
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John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Mr. Rockefeller
Emilé
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