Pan American highway education tour ends in Washington
Delegates returning to their Latin American nations after organizing the Pan American Confederation of Highway Education and drafting a plan for the first Pan American highway congress to be held in Buenos Aires next spring. Four thousand miles were covered in ten states with 31 days of touring, under the highway education board.
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Federacions
Pan-American Confederation
Eral
Pan-American Union
Brst Pan- American Highway Congress
Doctor Rowe
Thomas H. MacDonald
United States Bureau of Public Roads
J. Walter Drake
Department of Commerce
Washington
North Carolina
Kentucky
Iinois
Minnesota
Wisconsi
Michigan
Ohio
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Highway Education Board
J. J. Vigert
United States Commissioner of Education
Awards Awaiting War Dept List 13 Decorations for WWI Vets
The War Department holds 13 decorations for former American forces from World War I. Ten are undelivered due to missing recipients, three posthumous awards have no known relatives. Names include Harry Carlin, Charles Cartona, Floyd Cline, Otka Peter, and John K. Irons with ranks, units, and award details.
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War Department
Anit States Army
Carlin
Harry
Fourth Avenue
Detroit
Mich
Cartona
Charles
One Hundred and Second Infantry
A.B. F
Orange Street
Waterbury
Conn
Cline
Floyd
Seventh Infantry
Louisa Cline
Uno
W. Fa. Dobes
Otka Peter
Variaty Publishing Company
New York City
Irons
John K
World War I Heroes Given Multiple Decorations
A list of servicemen from various units receiving high honors including the Croix de Guerre, the Distinguished Service Cross, and the Medaille dHonneur des Epidemies. Entries include Emmet E. Suunsford, Luther Robi, James O Connner, Clayton H Pollan, and others with their units, divisions, and emergency addresses linked to kin in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, California, and Pennsylvania.
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Eleventh Infantry
Harry Crawley
Sixteenth Street
Monaca
Suunsford
Emmet E
Thirty-first Infantry
Siberia
William Lunsford
Claremore
Okla
O'Connnor
James
One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Infantry
Manville
N. Ed
Pollan
Clayton H
N. R. Pollan
Fort Smith
Ark
Robi
Luther
Sixteenth Infantry
War Department
Gladys Dean
Cooper
Texas
West
Chester HS
Poso Farm
Firebaugh
Fresno County
Cal
Marines Have Situation Well in Hand
Marines of the Marine Corps Expeditionary Forces under Brig. Gen. Dion Williams left Quantico for their fourth annual land maneuvers. The drills, spanning ten days of marching and ten days of camp and battle exercises, will culminate in battles on Civil War fields at Antietam Sharpsburg. The unit includes modern weapons, artillery, tanks, anti aircraft guns, and a chemical warfare company, with engineers and a communications unit handling radio and wire. The exercises test readiness for rapid campaigns and offensive land warfare in coordination with the navy, building on past maneuvers at Wilderness Gettysburg and New York and a recent interior naval base defense scenario.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marine Corps Expeditionary Forces
Dion Williams
Quantico
Antietam
Sharpsburg
Washington
Gaithersburg
Bilgeville
Navy
Marine Corps
Corps
Wilderness
Virginia
Gettysburg
New York
Culebra
Virgin Islands
National Clinic on Divorce Causes Proposed in Washington
A national clinic to determine the causes of divorce faces debate as experts from law psychology sociology and psychiatry consider how to distinguish real factors from legal grounds. States show 48 laws with up to 35 grounds for divorce highlighting the need for informed legislative action.
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Washington
New Hampshire
South Carolina
Congress
Minnesota's road system and funding push for new paving
Minnesota relies on seven thousand miles of state highways with average gravel roadbed maintenance costing exactly 5002 per mile last year. Local bonds totaling 35000000 have funded earlier improvements with a further 20000000 proposed, aiming to clear barriers and launch a nationwide standard building program. The No 1 trunk highway from St Paul to Duluth may close for construction, detouring traffic, as northern Lake Country pavements expand toward Grand Marais and Gunflint Lake.
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Minnesota
Union
State Highway Commission
Northwest Empire
O. M. Babcock
Iasne
Highway Department
Hue
St. Paul
Duluth
Iron Range
North
Wisconsin
Michigan
Lake Country
Minneapolis
St Cloud
Lake Superior
Pigeon River
Grand Marais
Hungry Jack Lake
Gunflint Lake
Coast to Coast Trip Made With Utmost Ease
The American Automobile Association says cross country trips now take about three weeks each way with side trips. Wayfarer IV pilot Dan J Nee notes the Atlantic to Pacific journey has no more difficulty than multiple trips between major cities. Equipment needs are modest for a typical motor vacation.
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American Automobile Association
Thomas P. Henry
Henry
4 AA
Wayfarer TV
Dan J. Nee
Atlantic
Pacific
Washington
Atlantic City
Wayfarer
Lincoln Highway Contract Lets Seven Mile Gap
Ohio highway department awarded a $158,448 contract to improve seven miles of Lincoln highway between Bacyrus and Crestline with bituminous macadam. Work will begin immediately and the road is hoped to open between Encyrus and Crestline late this fall. Traffic will be routed over the paved road via Galion during construction.
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Ohio Highway Department
Lincoln Highway
Bacyrus
Crestline
Encyrus
Lincoln
Galion
Three Feeds Now Cause Soft Pork
United States Department of Agriculture reports on five years of hog feeding trials showing soybeans peanuts and polish as key causes of soft pork. Results cover multiple states and detail how starting weight, gain rate, and feeding plans influence carcass firmness with soybeans and peanuts producing soft hogs and rice polish and tankage sometimes yielding harder carcasses.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Knoxville
Tenn
Alabama
Georgia
Indiana
Kentucky
Mississippi
North Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Cheek Soil Erosion by Bench Terracing
The United States Department of Agriculture explains terracing as the most effective method to prevent soil erosion for farmers. It distinguishes ridge and beach terraces, recommends broad-base level-ridge terraces for open permeable soils, and notes Mangum terraces suit soils where the level-ridge terrace fails without tile drainage.
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United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Farmers’ Bulletin
Washington, D
Liming Boosts Corn Yields In Missouri Trials
Missouri experiment station data show liming corn in a rotation with oats wheat and clover raises corn yields by up to 7.9 bushels per acre, averaging about 8.02 bushels. At 60 cents per bushel, this yields a net profit of roughly one dollar per acre per year, suggesting a favorable return on lime investment. The article notes enduring benefits beyond one crop and advises lime for corn alongside legumes.
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Missouri Experiment Station
Farm tips and community cooperation amid seasonal care
The piece blends practical farm advice with social exhortations. It highlights vegetables for vitamins, dairy and hens, milking machine hygiene, improving salt quality, neighborly cooperation, peat litter, and supporting home merchants, plus notes on pure bred rams and canning aromas signaling winter food.
Cabbage Given High Place in Dietetics
A long feature notes cabbage origins in England, linking it to kale cauliflower and sprouts. Prof Ruggles Gales explains wild cabbage as the source, Romans cultivated it, and sudden shifts produced varieties. It cites Royal Copeland on cabbage’s honored dietetic role and stresses roughage and lime, with cooking notes including kale brose and cabbage water.
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Ruggles Gales
England
Royal
Copeland
New York City
Pompey
Scotland
Thrift During Snowstorm Leads to Odd Gas Stop
A man drove to a filling station during a heavy snowstorm and, losing a quarter in the snow, left his car and searched in vain. Three days later he returned, found the car missing and the quarter, explaining he left it to mark the spot so he could locate it if someone hadn’t driven away.
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Capper
Gifts to Brons Park Zoo Include Animals and Rodents
At Brons Park Zoo New York most animals arrive as gifts from private citizens. Last year the zoo received a range of offerings including several opossums canaries a partly albinistic Tex as rattlesnake a horned grebe from Astoria L I and 40 birds from around the world. The gifts also include 3700 white rats and 1600 white mice from Crocker Laboratory at Columbia University to feed reptiles. The donor Emory W Clark of Canandaigua is noted for some gifts.
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Brons'park Zoo
New York
Astoria
L. I
Emory W.clark
Canandaigua
Crocker Laboratory
Columbia University
Highwayman Claude Duval of Domfront and Covent Garden Tomb
Duval, famed highwayman of Normandy birth, once linked to the duke of Richmond during the Reformation, grew notorious for audacity and chivalry toward women. Captured while intoxicated, he was executed in 1670 at Tiburn. His Covent Garden tomb inscription hints at a moral counsel to readers.
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Duval
Claude Duval
Domfront
Normandy
Duke of Richmond
Tiburn
Covent Garden
Similar Occupation in an Elegant Exchange
In a quizzical skit, the eminent personage, now an invalid, asks who wishes to see him. The butler reports that the physician is at work on his behalf, prompting a wry note on the overlap between physician and biographer in a Washington or Philadelphia Record style exchange.
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Philadelphia Record
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