Road construction insights from Prof Blanchard on highway safety
Prof Blanchard notes long radius curves wide inner pavements and banking to improve view and safety. He urges center line markings on hill crests and warning placards at dangerous crests and railroad crossings. He cites graveled roads as accident causes and Georgia as an example of faulty construction while urging careful highway development.
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Arthur H. Blachard
Department of Highway, Engineering and Highway Transportation
University of Michigan
National Highway Association
National Safety Congress
Detroit
Lanchard
Georgia
Blanchard
Price of Cotton Foresight Warns of Short Crop
The Department of Agriculture reports bullish outlook yet signals an unusually short cotton crop due to unfavorable weather and boll weevil pressure. With four bales per plow and prices at 20 cents, profits barely cover rent and worker wages, foreshadowing a forthcoming rise in prices as government data clash with farming realities. Other notes cover American tourists with exotic pets in London, rising cigarette use, aging Civil War veterans’ encampment, and radio adoption in New York apartments.
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Department of Agriculture
Official ballot for election vote in Oconee county Athens items
A collage of notices on residents visiting relatives and a long official ballot for the Georgia Democratic primary listing candidates for governor and other state offices. It notes a bank bankruptcy notice for D Lund with creditor meeting September 20 1922 and details on ballot boxes for 216th district voters in Athens.
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J. W. Johnson, Jr
Oconee County
Ellene Walker
Monroe
May Hodgson
John Webber
Nashville
Tenn
E. L. Burbank
Hoke Smith
M. A. Lipscomb
Milledge Avenue
Athens
Saab
B. B. Davies
Chan —E Cellor Boggs
State of Georgia
Mze
William J. Jal
Jm J. Vereen
E. W. Jordan
Democratic Executive Committee
Bedinger Baylor Thomas W. Hardwick
Clifford Walker
D. Lund
Real estate warns buyers as market improves in Athena
An advertisement extols investing now in real estate and life insurance as prices rise and conditions return to normal. It praises Vines Martin of Martin Brothers Shoe Co and touts Athena's climate, schools, rail access, and abundant timber as ideal for establishing manufacturing, especially furniture plants.
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Vines Martin
Martin Brothers Shoe Company
Martin
Athena
Tabor
Athens
Opportunities for Manufacturers Hidden in City Conditions
Our column notes golden opportunities for manufacturers depend on outsiders knowing actual local conditions. The correction states Georgia ratified the Federal Constitution January 2, 1786, not January 2.
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Georgia
Hart County News Items From Hartwell and Jackson County
Mrs W T Banister dies at 72 in Union Hill. The Sun notes cotton opening and business rising. I Kidd and Company opens a Hartwell warehouse. Marriages include Nell Linder with A C Cummings and Naomi Buffington with H C Prince. Cokesbury church in Hart County destroyed by fire, loss $15000, cause unknown. Jefferson hosts old time fiddlers convention. Lucy Hale drives a Fordson at Fordson convention in Atlanta. Hood elected mayor of Nicholson after heated contest. Loyd Gunter dies in Horchn. Accidently shoots self with pistol. B Marton shows an exhibit of 160 bolls.
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Hart County
W. T. Banister
Union Hill
the Sun
C. I. Kidd and Company
Hartwell
Nell C. Linder
A.C. Cummings
Naom ‘Buffington
Wart
H. C. Prince
Charleston
C. Cokesbury
Jackson County
Kate McDougal
Paul Whitemire
Mary F. Dye
Elbert
R. H. Bennett
Athens
Jefferson
Lucy Hale
Pendergrass
Atlanta
A.D. Hood
Nicholson
Columbus Smith
Pioneer Citi
Gen
Loyd Gunter
Horchton
B. Marton
Joyful Family Reunion After Mayo’s Remedy Help
A family recounts years of gas indigestion and stomach pain with Mayo’s Wonderful Remedy. After taking the course, all members claim recovery and celebrate a reunion. The ad markets the product as harmless, claiming it clears catarrhal mucus and inflammation in the intestinal tract. One dose convinces or money back, available at all druggists.
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Ailster
Yalster
Mayr
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