Georgia and Good Roads and an Analysis of the Road Question
Editorial in Southern Good Roads lauds Georgia for leading road construction. It notes Georgia built 4344 miles of good roads 1904–1909, compares state wealth, praises abolition of convict leasing, and credits a reformer with ending graft. The piece argues Georgia’s system shows southern states how to improve roads and urges others to follow.
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Georgia
Prof
C. M. Strahan
South
Union
Drst
New York State
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Good Roads in the South A Plan From Georgia Professor
Professor Charles Norton Strahan argues public opinion in the South requires a state highways bureau to coordinate county efforts, finance via bonds and taxes, and adopt sand and clay road surfaces as a low cost, durable solution. He stresses engineering leadership, local material use, and patient, systematic progress.
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Charles Norton Strahan
University of Georgia
Athens
de Falto
South
Georgia
Alabama
Legion
Ou Wan
Clarke County
Baed
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Fleeman Collins Engagement Told for Maude Fleeman
Mrs. M L Fleeman announces the engagement of her daughter Maude to William Thomas Collins. The wedding is planned for June at the bride’s home, 340 Lumpkin Street, Athens. Collins is a former Davison Nichol son firm executive and now a traveling rep for a New York house. Both families report extensive local interest in the match. Old Goi ls Warming up to his job all right. Teddy and Taft still hit each other with vim and violence, each sure of victory.
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M. L. Fleeman
Maude
William Thomas Collins
Lumpkin Street
Miss Fleeman
Athens
Collins
Davison-Nicholson
New York
Goi Ls
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