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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1925
Page
7
In a lonely room a aged man recalls thirty-eight friends from youth as he toasts them year after year. Civil war losses and fate thin the club until he is the Last Man and finally joins his departed fellows after a final, gasping toast.
An Irish elevator operator at the Palmer House in Toronto leaves the pit open. A man falls and is hurt. Dr Andrew Smith, nearby, weighs in with a humorous exchange about being a horse doctor and a suggested remedy.
The text traces early flower cultivation by Egyptians Greeks Assyrians Romans and Chinese. It notes ancient fig drawings in the Pyramid of Gizeh and dates ranging 1,500 to 4,200 years before Christ. It mentions gardening ideas reaching Japan in 604 A D and China 2700 B C with an emperor ceremony for sowing five useful plants each year.
The concept of a chain of stores under one management began with George H Hartford in 1859. He operated in the hide and leather trade in New York and soon added ten shops. By his death in 1917 the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea company ran 3,282 stores.
The United States Department of Agriculture presents a motion picture on the Cuyama valley highway project. Federal engineers carve a mountain road a thousand feet above the river, blasting rock fills and using air compressors when steam boilers fail. Bridges span dry gullies as the team overcomes floods and alkali waters to make a year round route.
Commissioner Frederick Stuart Greene of the New York state commission of highways directs pavement markings at all highway approaches to railroad crossings. Two white stripes 1 foot wide are 5 feet apart and cross the pavement 230 feet from the tracks. A third 12 inch stripe is 125 feet from the tracks. If drivers still fail to stop a final 2 foot wide diagonal barred sign appears 25 feet from the track to prompt stopping before crossing. The measure aims to cut grade crossing accidents during the years before elimination.
Indiana Farmers' Guide reports that federal highway policy favored trunk routes over farm to market roads. Farmers complain they have not received promised highway improvements and endure long distances on unimproved dirt roads. About 250 000 motor trucks operate on farms, up from 120 000 in 1920, with hogs and other stock heavily moved by truck.
A Rumpus Ridge citizen meets two local residents by the road who joke about swapping horses that afternoon and both being stuck at once. The scene unfolds with a light rural banter quoted from the Kansas City Star. An advertisement touts Cuticura Soap and Ointment with Cuticura Talcum for complexion and cleanliness.
A proposal to build a 30 mile low level tunnel under the Cascade mountains seeks to sever the barrier between east and west Washington. Estimated cost reaches 63 million dollars.
Ady promotes Hanford Balsam of Myrrh as a cure for galls cuts sores and caked udders. A large 1.25 dollar bottle is sold in all stores. The ad ends with a quotation from Huxley about knowledge and danger.
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