Not a dollar available for state highway maintenance
A 1913 statement from the State Highway Department to J H Weeks shows no funds are available for maintenance or repair of state roads this year. It lists specific appropriations and notes funds are allotted for other purposes, with many accounts exhausted or restricted to defined uses.
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Good Roads Movement
Highway Department
State Good Roads Committee
State Highway Department
Harrisburg
J. H. Weeks
Good Roads Committee
Philadelphia
D. Foster
Auditor General
National Road Fund
Auditor General's Office
State Grange warns on highway loan and new administration
State Grange officials opposed to the state loan for good roads fear a new administration will not properly handle the Highway Department. They defend initiative referendum and recall, questioning voters’ competence to employ these tools, noting a new governor and legislature will soon be chosen.
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State Grange
Grange
Highway Department
House of Representatives
Senate
Creasy’s 1908 Roads Plan Reconsidered as Governors Race Heats
The piece recalls William T. Creasy in 1903 backing a statewide roads system linking county seats at about fifty million dollars. It notes he now opposes the loan and the roads he once advocated, accusing him of courting farmer support while seeking the governorship.
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Creasy
William T. Creasy
House of Representatives
The Bohemian Circus Tragedy I Witnessed
A narrator recalls backstage tension at a Bohemian circus where a young woman and her strong partner perform a trapeze act. A quarrel with a jealous man precedes a fatal stunt as the woman falls to the net while the man subtly sabotages her, shocking the crowd.
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Jekkoles
Karl
Toari
Meen
Postal Fire Service in Germany Aids Small Towns
Germany creates a postal vehicle relief system to move fire apparatus from large cities to distant small towns. When a fire breaks out more than ten miles away from an established department, a postal automobile carries equipment to the scene, aiding villages like Walldorf that would otherwise be destroyed.
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Postal Fire Service
Germany
Waladort
Waleh
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