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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1913
Page
6
The article traces highway development from forest trails to modern graded roads, noting farmers bore much of the cost and effort. It credits bicycles and automobiles with accelerating road improvements and describes farmers shifting from opposition to support as improved routes benefit market access.
A letter about a Washington to Richmond highway shows the President supporting the broad good roads cause. He says the effort will ease farmers’ burdens, boost traffic, and raise public happiness, and notes auto users helped focus public attention without being the main drivers.
Western Kansas residents propose a 275 mile modern highway from Newton to the Colorado line. The continuous arkansas river boulevard would serve as an educational project for the state and nation, dubbed The New Santa Fe Trail.
The University of Alabama completed a laboratory for testing road materials. It aims to assist communities statewide and provide students practical instruction in road building as the profession grows in importance.
A study of good roads argues U S highways are too wide. German roads average 21 to 30 feet and handle heavy traffic, while Western roads in light traffic are 50 to 60 feet wide on land valued at $100 per acre, with most of the roadside left to weeds.
The piece argues that pleasant weather prompts longer, leisurely tramps that improve public health by encouraging walking despite streetcar convenience in cities. It highlights walking as a rising practice that lifts the general health standard among urban residents.
The piece notes rising theatre rents due to old leases. In New York Broadway Theatre now pays 70,000, Empire 50,000, New York Theatre 60,000, and Criterion 35,000 annually. Other cities show 30,900 to 45,000 in Boston, 26,000 to 40,000 in Cincinnati Detroit and St Louis. A site offer of 3.5 million was rejected.
Miss Harmon a keen nurse in a gentle manner rebukes Squire Lathrop as he recovers from a severe gout attack. She points out his perceived mercies noting the bedstead and linen press as privileges meant to lift his spirits.
At a Paris Road Conference it was decided that tar spreading on macadam roads prevents dust. France uses about one third of a gallon per square yard, improving road longevity and reducing maintenance costs. In the United States oil is widely used, applied during construction at one or two gallons per square yard. French engineers also recommend planting trees along roadsides to curb dust, with trees required on roads at least 33 feet wide, spaced 16 to 32 feet apart.
Two Toulouse women recall Jean Paul Laurens and his brothers. They note one son stayed in Toulouse as a prosperous grocer while the younger son went to Paris and became an artist. They praise Laurens’s honest father.
Prof Henry Kraemer of Philadelphia produced a red color in white Kaiserin rose petals using potassium compounds and aluminum sulfate and changed hydrangeas from red to blue. Chemicals fed as solutions or added to soil cause gradual uptake. mechanism not yet understood.
A rural district gleaned that a schoolteacher who suddenly left her boarding place could not be persuaded to return. She told the committee the food was so bad she could not eat it, while the landlady expressed surprise noting she had long excused the bread as faulty.
A reflective line by Luther H. Gulick notes that a day crowded with useful tasks and healthy occupations leaves no space for worry to intrude. The adage highlights productivity as a shield against anxiety.
A Covington tale of Mr Perry an old Southern gentleman who avoids drinking. When pressed to join a neighbor for sociability he offers to drink castor oil at a drug store declaring his oil as distasteful as whiskey to the other man. The exchange ends with a handshake and the neighbor never invites him to drink again.
The late Colonel Hadley spoke of starting as a drinker in the army, yet found strength through Christ and led a non political abstinence movement. He noted thousands of saloons closed as communities vote on local option laws to decide saloon presence, with a farmer citing four sons and three daughters as his reasons to vote.
The Illinois Legislature considers a measure to bar habitual drunkards from marrying by amending marriage law to define an habitual drunkard as someone intoxicated at least twice yearly. Applicants would swear they have not been drunk twice in the prior year, a severe restriction that could cut many marriages, including among respectable men.
A detective hid a camera in his vest to photograph fifty two Lehigh Valley railroad employees drinking liquor while on duty, catching them in the act.
Burlington New Jersey school board investigates drunkenness among high school boys who run speakeasies in their lunch boxes during school hours.
The passage portrays Byron the splendid poet as lacking in higher manly qualities and asserts his manhood was degraded leading to his grave at age thirty seven because of intemperance.
The report states forty thousand deaths annually in Germany are linked to intoxicating liquor use, highlighting a grave public health issue and urging policy action.
The Good Templars report 417,749 members worldwide and 8,924 lodges. This snapshot highlights the scale of the temperance movement across regions and its organizational footprint.
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