21 Aug 1901
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Newspaper
Edgefield Advertiser
Location
Edgefield, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1901
Page
1
The Post Office Department argues rural free delivery needs good roads and may drop routes that fail to improve. Iowa Illinois and Wisconsin show many interruptions last spring due to poor roads. The department will favor communities building better roads and continue service where relief is impractical.
A dramatic graphic from Scientific American shows the enormous provisions needed for a trans Atlantic voyage on a Deutschland scale liner. It details dressed meats, beverages, and dry goods carried, with live stock excluded, plus vessel specs and voyage timing that underscore the ship’s vast capacity and complex logistics.
A San Francisco area community near Gate Park converts retired streetcars into car towns or car villas. Cars stacked into levels become rooms and bay windows, with interiors adapted for living spaces. Residents, including many families, seek ocean breezes and unique housing, drawing names like Car teem and Villa Miramar for these boatlike homes.
The Washington dispatch praises Switzerland as the world's best organized military power. It details active and reserve forces, service terms, and the 1874 compulsory system, noting how a universal draft shapes a unified defense ready for rapid mobilization and potential global adoption of useful ideas.
An account of Cow Island on the Missouri River seven miles above Weston, its 1000 acres of forest, and its historic name from a lone cow likely stolen by Indians. French traders called it Tre de Vache while English speakers used Cow Island, and Lewis and Clark halted there on July 3, 1804 to stock up and find a large lake later known as Bean Lake.
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