Road Associations Organized for Better Southern Highways
Road groups form across the South and a Jefferson Memorial highway is planned from Charlottesville to Monticello. General Fitz-Hugh Lee heads the association with UVA support, seeking funds for macadam roads and a future extension to the University of Virginia. Governor Montague urges design, supervision, and state county funding to speed improvements.
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Winter County
South
Charlottesville
Southern Railway
Washington
Mainy
Charlottesvile
Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
University of Virginia
Jefferson
Fitz-Hugh Lee
Hanna
Virginia
Montague
New Jersey
New Use for Wealth and Public Improvement
A column praises wealth used for public good. George Gould offers to pay one third of Lakewood highway improvements, enabling better roads for libraries, universities, hospitals, and towns. The piece argues robust philanthropy should include infrastructure access, linking noble gifts to practical civic benefits and city life.
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George Gould
Lakewood
Weil
Trarper
Gould
Elvics
Georgia county moves toward better roads led by Col Tillimn
Muscogee county Georgia with Co llumbusi as the county seat shows road improvement efforts. County commissioners take interest led by Colonel W T Tillimn who has focused on road making. The local chain gang system has shifted from patching roads locally to building improved county roads with the entire convict force.
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Muscogee County
Collumbusi
W. T. Tillimn
Louisville Courier-Journal
Convicts Build Georgia Road Network Under Tillman Plan
Colonel Tillman tours the Ginde road with delegates, noting nine miles already hardened with macadam surfaces and a mix of native mats gravel and clay. Convict labor aims to complete ten to twelve miles yearly, boosting a 300 mile county system where only one tenth is finished and Coxee county reports no public debt and low taxes.
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Ginde
Ft Fe
Muacoxee County
Georgia
Roads in Delaware Improve With Convict Stone Plan
Across Delaware farmers seek better roads as old patchwork fails amid frequent rains. The Philadelphia North American notes convicts will supply broken stone this season to start a solid state road, while wide tires and storms leave wagons and carriages splintered along rural paths.
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Delaware
Philadelphia
Southern trucks push road movement over diods
The piece notes southern farmers abandon this matter of diods and back a river project. It praises railroads for funding road improvements while noting selfishness behind the rail push. Richmond Times calls for well drained dirt highways built to engineering standards for future farming commerce.
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Richmond
Tariff and the Trust Attack on Meat Duties
A Philadelphia Record piece argues repeal of meat duties benefits consumers by reducing prices and breaking the meat trust led from Chicago and Kansas City. It links tariffs to railroad rebates and boycotts, urging federal action and removal of trade barriers to curb price manipulation.
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Meat Trust
Agrarians
Germany
Chicago
Kansas City
Trust
Canada
Mexico
United States
Philadelphia
A Life on the Subsidy Sea in Verse
The poem rails against subsidies as a political ship and crew. Royal Meeker signs the satire as a critique of government support. It imagines a life on the subsidy sea with wages without work and ships bound by political funding.
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Mr. Frye
Marcus Hanna
Royal Meeker
Millionaires hold vast share of U S wealth, says New York Trevald
The New York Trevald cites estimates that 823 millionaires own at least 16 billion in property in the United States. If divided among all residents each would get 210 dollars, and per capita for the state would be about 8000. It names the Van derbilt family at 300 million and John D Rockefeller as possibly the wealthiest.
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New York
John D. Rockefeller
United States
Atlanta Constitution
Protection to Shipping in the Coastwise Trade Debate
Advocates of subsidies cite the U S coasting fleet as proof of protection’s benefits. The piece argues long trade history favors domestic routes, condemns provigation laws, notes Americans own much foreign-flag tonnage, and claims protection raises freights and harms efficiency in coastwise and potentially ocean trade.
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United States
The Worm Turns in House Battle Over Speaker Tyranny
In a Cuban reciprocity debate Republican Cushman of Washington delivers a blistering attack on the speaker and house rules. He calls the calendar a cemetery for legislative hopes and accuses leaders of unrepublican policies and misused power, contrasting with historical tyranny and current tariff reform debates.
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Republcan
Washington
House
Tis
Brent Committee
King Solomon's Temple
United States
Nero
Hufla Good Roads A Dill Introduced In House
Representative Otey of Virginia introduces a bill providing an appropriation of 100000000 dollars for good roads across forty five states and four territories. Roads construction would be supervised by the Department of Agriculture.
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Virginia
United States
Department of Agriculture
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