Good Roads Efforts Expand In Formations Of Road Education
The Office of Public Roads assists counties with expert guidance and field work to improve highways. In the past year 17 roads in 11 states were built using sand clay and burnt clay, with tarred roads proving durable after seven months. A rural delivery plan partners with the Post Office to fix impassable routes, while 384 samples were tested at the road laboratory to study rock decomposition and binding power in macadam materials.
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Coustics
Office of Public Roads
Journal of Agriculture
Efsen
Texas
Post Office Department
Secretary of Agriculture
Ladder footing fix with rough hemlock board addition
A practical ladder improvement using a three foot by eight inch rough hemlock board to prevent slippage on smooth floors. Attach at an angle with strap hinges for a stable base that won’t mar barn floors. Also notes early rhubarb care with mulching and covering to hasten spring harvest.
How to Farm Successfully from a Practical Guide
A Farm Tribune correspondent outlines practical steps for successful farming. Maintain soil fertility with planned rotations, manure fed to fields, and forward planning. Emphasizes thinking, selective stock, and keeping farm improvements tidy to attract and retain family and community.
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Farmtra’ Review
Handy Snow Gate Improves Farm Gates for Winter
The Whistration offers an improvement to farm gates to cope with deep snow. Gates can be raised a foot or two and held with a pin until the snow melts. Use big strong posts and a raised short post to support the gate. Gate making is a profitable winter activity.
Farm Facts On Livestock Care And Feeding
Insights on feeding and bedding to improve animal condition and value. Notes that maintenance costs matter, hogs react to routine, sheep repay owners, and thrifty care grows profits. A stall trick with a sheep pelt is shared as a cure for a kicking horse.
Automobile and Dust on French Roads
The summer complaint in France links road dust to rising automobile use. Homes and gardens suffer as dust clouds from passing cars blanket grounds. Solutions focus on roadway treatments rather than changing car speeds or structures, with tar and limited petroleum use suggested due to cost.
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France
Europe
Dean's Kidney Pills Promote Rapid Dropsy Relief
Mrs. Elizabeth Maxwell of Olympia Washington credits four boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills with shrinking her long standing dropsy and easing heart and breathing distress after three years of symptoms including swelling ankles and tense fingers. Sold by all dealers at 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Also a brief quip about Vice President Fairbanks needing a better nose for news concludes the piece.
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Elizabeth Maxwell
Olympia
Wash
Dean
Foster Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Skin cure through Cuticura Remedies in North Carolina
A cousin in Rockingham County suffered a birth skin disease until age six. Despite costly treatments, no relief. After using Cuticura Remedies, the child recovered within two months. Seventeen years later she remained well, with skin fully healed and no scars. June 16, 1905, Hur ington, North Carolina, signed by Mrs. W. P. Ingle.
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Rockingham Co
W. P. Ingle
Hur.ington
N. C
French President’s Doubleshine in Paris Match
A doppelgänger of M. Fallieres, a Rue Saint Honore merchant, has emerged as the president’s look alike. He wears a blue dotted necktie and a similarly cut beard, often flanked by a companion resembling the president’s secretary, walking proudly through Faubourg Saint Honore amid salutes. Allcock’s Plasters advertised as safe, sure, and speedy relief for pains, with a warning about imitations and counterfeit plasters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Fallieres
Rue Saint Honore
Allcock
Animals Crying Over Grief and Pain in Nature
A Harper's Weekly note claims animals shed tears from thirst pain or sorrow including horses, mules, camels, sea lions, elephants and even a crying chimpanzee. It cites observers like Gordon Cummings and references various animals reacting to loss or injury.
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Syrian Desert
Saya Na
Harper'a Weekly
Livingston
Bates
Hunteman
Gordon Cummings
Peruna named a tonic and catarrh remedy
The article argues Peruna is both a tonic and a catarrh remedy. It explains catarrh as a weakened mucous membrane state needing circulatory strength and nerve tone. It highlights Hydrastis Canadensis with Cubebs Copaiba and other tonics as forming Peruna, with testimonials supporting its efficacy.
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Chandler
Maine
Min le
Big
Five
Toon
Mr. Fairbanks
Defiance
Kline
I. H. Kine
Wal Arch St
Philadelphia
J. E. Newman
Diogenes
George
George Washington
Washington Plantation
Westmoreland County
Virginia
TaLang
Faust J. Cwenny Maxes
Srv
J. Caaner & Co
Tiiedo
Catania
TRASK
Cheney
A.D. Vert
W. Gleason
Frye
Cueney & GO
Toledo
Sloan
Sloanis
Earl S.sloan
Boston
Mass
Chesbbrough Mfg, CO
State Street
New York City
Craemer
Grand Avenue
ST. Lguis
DRS
Castoria
Bears
Chariton
Earl of Suffolk
Mise Linley Leiter
Lewis
Lewis’ Factory
Carters
Dreperredia
Fleur Coord
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Dept
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Amicvoa
Athens
Crawford
Ninth Street
Kansas City
Missouri
C. J. Broughton
Quincy Building
Chicago
Illinois
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