Favors Wide Tires on Wagon Wheels Bulletin Promotes Wider Road Tires
A bulletin by Roy Stone of the Agricultural Department urges wider wagon tires to protect public highways. It includes state laws offering tax rebates for tires three to three and a half inches wide, reports on tests in several states, and summaries from Consular reports on foreign tire widths. It cites France and Germany as examples and notes unusual experiments in road construction.
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Agricultural Department
Roy Stone
Stone
France
Mystery Husband Confronts Wife After Late Night Return
In a New York World style vignette a husband wakes to accuse his wife of infidelity. She reveals she spent the evening at the Dorcas Advanced Woman's League and won 250 dollars from Mrs Keennan, the Colonel's wife, leaving him stunned by their winnings.
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Dorcas Advanced Woman's League
Keennan
New York
Hercules
Noah
of the Ark
Poobox
Col. Keennan
Ancient Hindoo Drama Vasantasena in New York
Irving Place Theater presented Sudraka’s Vasantasena, a drama written thousands of years ago, in a modern performance. It highlights Hindoo life and customs, resembles Shakespeare in dramatic build and climaxes, with noble rhymes and prose scenes. Sudraka’s life noted as a king who later retired as a hermit.
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Irving Place Theater
New York
Vasantasena
Sudraka
Europe
Shakespeare
Shakspeare
The Wife of the Future
A man waits in darkness at the foot of stairs and contemplates facing his wife after losing a large sum at gaming. He plans contrived excuses, then discovers his wife is mysteriously absent from the boudoir, leaving him to confront an unknown fate.
New York Types and London Contrasts in Society
In a discussion of social types, the piece contrasts American and London fashions and manners, noting fewer elder lines in New York. it highlights clerical and military types, limited dowager presence, and closes with observations on Ibsen’s new three act drama and a quirky saying about marriage.
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New York
London
St. Ibsen
Where Farming Pays In The Northwest Wheat At Low Prices
A fragment hints at farming profitability in the Northwest with wheat selling under fifty cents a bushel amid sparse weather details. The text is incomplete preventing full context or confirmation of the scene.
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R-L.p.ans&s Abuses
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Ursors
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Wis
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O. W. Hoxwrex
St. Paul, Minn
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M't’g Co
LaCreave
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Sporting Goods
W. N. McKeehen
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Cincinnati Expres
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Cincinnati Expresa
Cincinnati
Alvordton
Detroit
United States
F. B. Dwaxr
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Ohio
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AIR Line
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Central
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