The Attack Beginning in the German Front Line
From a during the afternoon calm the sector erupts as artillery roars across the village and trenches. Soldiers brace for an offensive as French guns reply, and the advancing infantry smash through German lines in a brutal breaking of the front. By night the drive eases, prisoners are moved southward, and wounded are ferried to rear areas.
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Imasses
Reading
William T. Martin
New York Sun
Payment for Good Bridges by Bond Issue Advised
Ontario deputy highway minister urges taxpayers to fund bridges and culverts via bond issues when totals are large. Compile a list of needed structures, create plans and estimates, then distribute costs over many years to avoid heavy annual tax burdens and preserve road grading and surfacing progress.
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Indiana
Ontario
W. A. McLean
Save Cost of Maintenance
Br. W. G. Gay discusses road financing and construction choices. He argues the lowest annual upkeep cost matters more than initial price, noting New York findings that brick highways cost more upfront but cheaper to maintain than macadam. He emphasizes permanent, well built roads reduce lifetime costs.
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BR. W. Gay
Mississippi
New York State
Longest Concrete Roadway Completed Under State Supervision
Under supervision of the California state highway commission, the longest concrete roadway in the world has just been completed. It spans a little over three miles in trestle construction, cost nearly 395000 dollars, and features a 21 foot wide roadbed raised on reinforced concrete piles weighing three to five tons each. The floor uses pre cast slabs and the assembled structure is practically 2 mobolith.
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California State Highway Commission
Convicts on Georgia Roads Create Public Works Plan
Georgia employs virtually all able-bodied male convicts in road building. Since abandoning private leasing in 1909, the state has expanded prisoner labor on highways. The program is regarded as very successful and productive for the public works effort.
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Georgia
Top Dressing for Roads in France Experiment
A coarse mix of iron fibers sand and cement is being tested as a top dressing for highways in France. The project explores durability surface wear resistance and drainage improvements as an experimental road treatment.
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France
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound praised by Bridgeton reader
A Bridgeton New Jersey reader credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with resolving severe menstrual irregularities and related pains. The testimonial from Mrs Mitrop T Cumee of 322 Harmony St Penns Grove extols relief and urges other women to trust the remedy for backache nervousness and distressing ills. The fragment ends with a separate note about a Sewing Society meeting and sowing seeds.
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Bridgeton
N.J
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Best Beauty Doctor and High Cost of Living Jokes
An ad praises Cuticura Soap and Ointment for clear skin and hair with free samples by mail. A humor item jokes about cutting household expenses by 50 percent to beat high living costs. A mock divorce note and a quip about army service add to the miscellany. The passage ends with a rapid aside on Spain’s 1916 grape yield and global happiness.
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Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Merry Ann
X. Penses
Bunkville
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