Safeguarding Walkers On Night Highways Findings
The Geneva Electete Company tested pedestrian safety measures at night and found bright car headlights often fail to reveal walkers in time. White clothing or a white handkerchief proved the most reliable signals, while dark clothing rendered pedestrians invisible even at 400 feet. General Electric researchers note pedestrians resist wearing signals, so they favor sighted highways with regular street lamps. Such lighting would reveal pedestrians directly or by silhouette, suggesting lighted highways may become common and arguing for dedicated pedestrian paths along roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
General Electric
Old Pioneers Remembered in Corry Directory Fragment
A 1865 70 era business directory excerpt treasured by Joan Shields recalls Corry’s early days. It notes the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad site amid timber swamp and hills, lists city officials and several residents such as Weather Weather Stark Stewart Tinker and Barnes, plus traders, lawyers, and craftspeople, illustrating a formative local community.
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Wlwayer
Editoria Tus
Joan Shields
Grove Street
Republican Steam Printing House
Wright
Washington
Interesision
Corry
Sisctiex
Che Clty
Weather
Stark
W. J H. Stewart
C.H. Tinker
Halle
Carringe Shop
S. Z. Andrews
Charles Augustus
Hutals
H. E. Baker
Josey Barnes
Game of Correct English by W L Gordon
Exercises on grammar pronunciation and spelling from a vintage column. Readers test correct sentence structure, pronunciation of difficult words, and choice of proper spellings with a set of fill in the blanks and answers. The page reflects a language education style with multiple choice and corrective notes.
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W. L. Gordon
Massachusetts law on outdoor ads faces challenge
Public Scenic Rights: Billboard lobby attacks state highway advertising controls. Thomas H. MacDonald of the U S Bureau of Public Roads backs Massachusetts rules as fit and reasonable to prevent highway disfigurement. He urges public bodies like the highway department to decide what signs may harm health safety and fire safety along roads. He notes the public should guard scenic views on thoroughfares.
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Massachusetts
State Highway Commission
Fie
Outdoor Advertising Association
Organization of Billboard Men
Thomas H. MacDonald
United States Bureau of Public Ready
Boston
MacDonald
Highway Department
Pbiilfon Wang
Money Seeking Heir in Los Angeles Notice
Mrs Bertha Piedmont died in Los Angeles leaving eighty thousand dollars for her son Howard Champlain if he is located There is question about that Edward left Nome twelve years ago at age eighteen and has not been heard from since If alive he may never hear of his inheritance It will be his own fault Boys should write to their mother.
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Bertha Piedmont
Los Angeles
Howard Champlain
Edward
Nome
Look and Learn Quiz From a Bygone Page
A fragmented reader prompt asks about Tet the Protestant and Catholic church, the rotation, day loss or gain, railroad locomotive costs, Sidlay Porter pen name, and a continent inhabited by about one third of humanity. It lists questions on gold Martha Washington Pocahontas, temperatures from tepid to hot, plus The Lyre Philadelphia.
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Sidlay Porter
Continent
Earth
Martha Washington
Poca Boritay
Philadelphia
Twenty Years Ago From The Journal March 26 1909
A Spring rumor frames a new factory project in the Witte village for summer. Dunkirk’s George Kay seeks a walking companion to Montana with Albert Wells replying he will visit Kay tomorrow. An Erie freight engine derailed near CM tower. James McGraw removed a large chimney at the old tannery and eyes the Bets. Five hundred fifty dollars were donated for Old Home Week by town citizens. RD McKelvey and Co complete their railroad siding for a refrigerating plant in Spring Creek, with major upgrades underway. Merl Hill sustains two severed fingers at the Raymond plant. The Lady Miccahees hosted charity parties in their rooms. A 22-year-old, 480-pound woman en route to Kane drew attention at the depot. A sign from a jewelry display was sold to the Arlington hotel in Oil City for future erection. SW Brown and family, plus Mrs. W A Pronk, expected home from Florida. Scott Mawards returns from a western business trip. George Garson of St Paul visits Clarence Rogers before returning home.
Pinchot Sets Sail On Scientific Galapagos Cruise Aboard Mary Pinchot
Former Pennsylvania governor Gifford Pinchot plans a 15000 mile voyage aboard the three masted schooner Mary Pinchot from New York to the Galapagos Islands with Mrs. Pinchot, their son Gifford Jr, and a team of naturalists. The expedition, a blend of exploration and science, includes scientists from Yale Pittsburgh and the Smithsonian and aims to study geology, flora, and unique animal life while seeking insights into the Galapagos islands origins and evolution.
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Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Corry
South Seas
Corty
New York Harbor
Mary Pinchot
Mary P
Naturalists Board
Galapagos ArchipelAgo
Uttle
Volcani
Equator
South America
Henry A. Pilsbry
Department of Invertebrates
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences
AK. Fisher
Heational Museum of Washington
Wi K Wistien
Leland Stamiford University
Balboa
United States Biological Survey
Yale School of Forestry
Unniversity of Pittsburgh Museum
Galapagos Uniga
Galapagos
Pennsylvania to bar films ridiculing the Eighteenth Amendment
Harrisburg May 26 action pictures and plays that ridicule the Eighteenth Amendment would be prohibited under a bill in the House. Rep Hartsook of Blair sponsored the measure aiming to end the hold up to federal dry laws.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Hartsook
Blair
Height of Log Pile Under Stacked Logs
Three logs form a stepped stack. The two low logs each have a diameter of 16 inches and touch. A third log of diameter 14 inches lies atop the pair. The total height equals the sum of the vertical radii where the logs contact. The two lower logs contribute their radii (8 inches each) and the top log adds its radius (7 inches) above them, totaling 8 plus 8 plus 7 equals 23 inches.
Answer to Yesterdays Problem 93 Days
Fragment lists names and roles such as N Gifford dentist B Gilson hotel Frank JH Gregg secretary Corry Machine Go C G Harmon cashier Corry National Bank J Hepburn William Hooker grocer J M Hof min druggist Pat Keleher hotel Kent Brothers oil refiners Hi F King irar or nun Ho lis King judge Charles Krech nan ware William Lamont conductor 7 3 Mackres physician J A McKen sie clothier.
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N. Gifford
B. Gilson
Frank JH. Gregg
Corry Machine Go
C. G. Harmon
Corry National Bank
J. Hepburn
William Hooker
J. M. Hofmin
Pat Keleher
Kent Brothers
F. King
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C.J. Swift
Common Council
Wade
J. Dwyer
B. Stubbs
William Ober
A. Beavis
Tam
Witte
Dunkirk
George Kay
Dunkists
Montana
Albert Wells
Wells
Kay
Erie Huilrond
Verall
James McGraw
The
Journal
Weisser
RD. McKelvey and Go
Spring Creek
Merl Hill
Hust Church Street
Hai
Raymond Plant
Miccahees
Kane
Joseph Mynn
Arlington Hotel
Oil City
SW. Brown
H. A. Frank
Miss Ruth
W. A. Pronk
Florida
Scott Mawards
George Garson
St. Paul
Clarence Rogera
Stout
Frylie
Ken Barge
United Press
Will
Chapin’s
Coats
Frank C. Chapin & Sons
N. Center St
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