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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1930
Page
6
Travel wardrobe guidance for sea trips outlines beige and bright color tweeds, silk dresses, lace accents, and deck sports outfits. It recommends a silk frock, chiffon gown, lace accents for evenings, and practical wear like crepe pajamas and sports suits.
The report notes buses under eight years old run regularly on over 290000 miles of routes, versus 250000 miles of steam railroads and 45000 miles of electric railways, illustrating the scale of early motorized transit.
The American Automobile Association offers travel tips for international trips. It advises declaring all spare parts and valuables before leaving the United States and keeping personal papers. It notes differing driving rules such as staying to the left in England and some countries and to the right in others. It recommends triptyques for each country like Spain and to have triptyque discharge at the border when leaving a country.
Indiana outlines a park system where large wooded preserves receive state funding for access paths roads and sanitary facilities. A 10 cent gate fee per person is charged at entrances with children exempt and outside visitors contributing. Hotels built and leased to concessionaires provide affordable lodging for vacationers.
Popular Mechanics notes a rubberized slicker protects passengers in the rumble seat during rain. The garment stored in a compact bag fits in place without snaps hooks or strings using cage-rubber cleats for secure positioning and face opening.
In a secluded section of Kosciusko County Palestine lake is described as a fishermans paradise with full provisions for comfort. Water for drinking comes from a hundred foot well and is touted as the counties finest. The item notes a shift in tire materials with fewer solid tires sold in 1921 and a change by 1929.
A proposed Shipstead Nolan bill would preserve a vast virgin forest region across northern Michigan and adjacent Canada as a major recreational area. The wildwood area would include lakes, fishing, game, camping sites, and scenery, expanding beyond the present Superior National Forest.
Indianapolis College of Pharmacy will graduate sixty nine students at commencement in Caleb Mills Hall Short Ridge High School speaker will be Albert Stump attorney. Degrees include Pharmaceutical Chemist recipients listed and Bachelor of Science for Donald Grainger Michael Hogan and C Garrett Willis.
Indiana state park inns offer American plan rooms with meals from 2.50 to 3.50 per day. Weekly rates range from 15 to 24 dollars. No luxury service, but beds are good and housekeeping solid. Guests enjoy wholesome food and the parks' scenic beauty.
Turkey Run State Park in Indiana spans 1 070 acres of heavily wooded terrain with virgin timber totaling 285 acres. The area features deep sandstone gorges, scenic hollows, and abundant wildlife while Turkey Run Inn offers 150 overnight capacity with notable Sunday chicken dinners.
The fish and game division gains funds to buy about 12 000 acres of Brown county timber land south of Nashville as a protected game preserve where no hunting is allowed. A 2 500 acre Kankakee game preserve lands in the old English Lake district also becomes state property, preserving historic waterfowl habitats and the Midwest’s premier fishing grounds.
United Fur nished Room Association forms in New York to protect landladies and boarding-house owners from fly-by-night roomers. The group aims to disseminate information on credit and maintain a service to locate and trace individuals who leave furnished room houses without paying rent or in arrears.
Clifty Falls state park presents the Ohio valley from Clifty Inn atop a steep slope above Madison Indiana. The six hundred acre park features twenty waterfalls led by Clifty Falls seventy feet high with trails to wooded ravines and the hollow. Amenities include parking shelter and a refreshment stand with meals or rooms via Clifty Inn Madison. Train and bus access available to Madison.
California organizes a night police patrol to protect motorists on highways. About 120 men will respond to emergencies and chase traffic offenders in fast white cars. Officials hope the extra highway protection reduces accidents and deaths. Roy Youngblood notes fatalities peak at night despite lower traffic.
The Tippecanoe battle site in Indiana is preserved by state action. County commissioners guard the field, with a tall monument and markers marking points of interest on the reservation near Battleground south of Lafayette along the River road.
A Yale professor unveils a mechanical traffic light that "thinks" by sensing cars with road sensors and a control box. It prioritizes vehicles by arrival, speed, and density, allowing first gaps in a continuous stream and including streetcars and pedestrians in the crossing logic.
General Edward Martin, Pennsylvania state treasurer, states the commonwealth will have the best highway system in the United States in the near future.
Greene Clay and Sullivan counties plan to purchase Shakamak State Park near Jasonville. The 1000 acre site will feature an artificial sixty acre lake from a dormant railroad fill and include shelters water supply camp sites picnic groves and an outdoor amphitheater for large crowds.
The North Shore hotel at Lake Tippecanoe is operated by former race driver Herb Lytle who competed in the first local 500 mile race. The wooded lakeside location offers cottages and full vacation amenities including bathing boating fishing golf and tennis for guests.
Real rest is offered in Dillsboro at Indiana’s famed Dillsboro sanitarium, home of White Crane water. The facility highlights guest comfort with carefully trained staff watching over visitors to ensure a pleasant, memorable vacation experience.
Tourists headed toward Louisville will find a warm Hoosier welcome at the Commercial hotel in Scottsburg. The hotel is noted for its meals with a Sunday chicken dinner described as an unusual treat. It offers conveniences and quiet comfort for travelers planning a night in Scottsburg.
The National Touring Bureau of the American Automobile Association says on eastern highways detours average 850 annually with higher numbers in peak touring season. Advance detailed information reduces delay and cost, and inquiries at local motor clubs provide up to date detour data for spring and summer travel.
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