Convict Road Work Promoted by Agriculture Bulletin
Mars prisoners will be set to road work this year under a public roads program. The Agriculture Department issued a bulletin Convict Labor for Road Work outlining coordinated control between state prisons and highway departments, with prison selection and care rules supervised by the prison service and road operations managed by the highway department. The report covers camp officers records health sanitation and supplies, and urges local authorities to use Agriculture Department guidance to maximize convict road work benefits in 1917.
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Mars
Yepr
Impotia
United States’ Department of Agriculture
National Committee On “Prisons
Thia Raport
Conntet
Dhe
Atate
Atate Highway
Highway Department
Department of Agriculture
Immense Cost of Bad Roads Delays to Farmers Across Nation
Farmers lose hundreds of millions yearly due to poor rural roads. Experts cite road barriers during harvest and market access, causing skipped top prices and added national economic losses. If rural roads were usable year round, Uncle Sam could save over half a billion dollars. The piece argues bad road conditions block traffic for weeks and months in rural districts.
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United Btates
Tonia
Department, of Agriculture
Uncle Bam
Duty of Every Farmer and California Highway
A fragment urges farmers to see roads as vital to farm and market access. It notes California voters approved spending to perfect the state highway system, with counties not meeting efficiency or economy expectations.
School News From January 1916 Campfire and Scout Notes
This week at school editor notes a 6th grade teaching change, exams completed, and students awaiting marks. Campfire Girls plan for council and Foot Show attendance. next meeting January 11 at Mrs Haeger’s. Boy Scouts add members and report second class tests with Eagle and Wolf patrol progress. Red Cross knitting grows and yarn donations welcome. Cash building fund exceeds expectations thanks to children.
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Tak
Lyexa
Council
The
Guardian
Haeger
Boy Scout
Ilmer Hartman
Roy Halns
Gilbert Behmtts
Piard Dammzann
Augyat. Schult
Wilbur Gold
Marshall Quandt
Wiliam Kivesaner
Arcond
Thator Patrol
Eugene Field School News Highlights And Snow Day Absences
Editor- R ather Poiat and Assistant-Editor Helen Overmeyer report on student achievements in Red Cross projects and scrapbooks. Eighth grade prepares a blanket. graduates rehearse songs while many pupils stayed home due to snow. Basketball paused but manual training gains interest as Saturday activities resume. Louise Von Waltershannon leads the orchestra. Warren Stahmer visits and plans to study art after high school. Neighborhood Club gifts a Holland play picture to the second room. thanks extend to Mrs Herbert Mustler for the framed gift for the first grade.
U S Grant School Opens After Holiday Break
Report from U S Grant School describes a pleasant vacation return for pupils and staff. Funds from a War Gift sale and Red Cross drives totaled 20 dollars in currency and 98 dollars in memberships, turned over to the Red Cross and Junior Red Cross. Graduation plans, Christmas trees, and weather-related absences are noted, with final exams slated for next week.
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Washington
Fragmented musings mix on strength and happiness
A jumbled column recalls claims about physical strength and vocal training, notes a late remark on prize fighters, and riffs on happiness versus pleasure. It cites a fear of weakness in performance, mentions a car theft burrowing a windshield from a Springfield thief, and muses on parenthood and societal progress with digressive asides.
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Madame Ca
The Capitol's Fifth Avenue in Washington and its rival
A garbled OCR passage contrasts Washington D C s Fifth Avenue style with F street as the fashionable parade ground and notes the long standing but unclear origins of local institutions. It also references the Island of Santo Domingo and mentions statistics about a distant population distribution across regions.
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Capitol
Fifth’ Avenue
Washington
F Street
Services at Myxonio Temple Maywood 10:45 Sunday
Services held at Myxonio Temple in Maywood on Sunday morning at 10:45 with an afternoon and evening schedule listed. Open daily from 2 to 6 p.m. and evenings from 7 to 9 p.m. on specified avenues and streets.
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Pirdt
Cheba Sétentiat
Maywood
Tite
Myxonio Temple
Bouth
Avenue
2Nd Street
Revie
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Mabel “Chieboun
Ane
Mabs
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Luctde Joyaux
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Mini Hock
Jciags
Mott
Land Perente
Apri
Red Cross
Wien
Mian Walah Milas Davia
Curtis
Milas Gleeson
Eugene Field School
Rather Poiat
Helen Overmeyer
Myrtla Seldol
Carolyn Watlle i Katteing
Claan
Alnost
Orchestra
Miss Louise von Waltershannon
A. L. Stevenson
Ming Gleeson
Warren Stahmer
Walcome
Warren
Dave
Holland
Herbert Mustler
Parent Teachers’ Association
U.S. Grant School
Far Park
M. Gupt. Nuellesfield
Francia
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State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Christman
Guardatahene
Mabel Druhne
Mr. Brown
Sevanth
Winona
Arthur Ligdke
Walter Huppenbower
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Madison St
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Sfaltt-Synto Domingo
H. J. Mobr
Maple Ava
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Oak Park
Henry D. Schumacher
Twelfth
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Notary Public
Vera Glear
Havana
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Phil C. Nieman
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W. Twelfri
Forest Park State Bank
Albert Roo
Thode
Vice Aident
Albert Roce
H. E Jenking
Albert J. Roob
Pred G. Becker
Ape't
Jacob Schwab
Frederick
Herman
F. Jacob
H, Hans
Henry
Rieck
Albert
Harlem State Savings Bank
W. FE. Grosser
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WM. F. Staake
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Ernsst Reich, Asat Cashier
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KA. Cummings
F. Haabe
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Forest
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McAvoy Brew” Company
A. E. Winterreth
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