King Road Drag How to Build the Split Log Drag Device
An inventor explains a practical split log road drag. From wood choice to hole drilling and lashings, the article outlines constructing a seven foot drag for 1200 pound loads or a one foot pine drag for two 1700 pound horses. It notes use of fog wood, proper keystoning, and future details on operation.
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D. Ward King
Australia
Porto Rico
Honolulu
Canada
Paris
Ting Road
Thuber
Building Swamp Roads Horatio Earle Tells of Methods Tried
Horatio S Earle Michigan state highway commissioner shares swamp road trials. Methods include sinking gravel and cobblestones to create side walls, using trees as a soil mat, cross swamp railroad grade, and endwise logs to stop muck. Techniques also suggest straw or hay layers to protect gravel until packing. Also notes on automobile impact and New York public road data.
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Horatio S. Earle
Horatio
Earle
Michigan
Good Roads In Cuba Province to Build Eighty Miles
Report indicates about eighty miles of good roads will be built this year in the province of Haya Cuba. The plan aims to improve transportation and local commerce, signaling significant infrastructure expansion under regional development efforts.
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Cuba
Haya
A Desperate Case and A Roomer in the Air
A roomer’s death by hanging at a lodging house is reported in a humorous town note. A preacher’s quip about Jeremiah stirs a church audience as a restless tale of prophets ends in relief. A husband rushes to a hospital after finding a note saying his wife has gone to have her kimono cut out, Belle.
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Jeremiah
Mrs. Brown
Belle
Ladies’ Home Journal
Cata
Elmir Quetly
A Gentle Man Advertises Patent Medicine Sale
A fragment from an English daily reprints a curious advertisement seeking “a gentleman to undertake the sale of a patent medicine” with a promise of profit for the undertaker. The text then shifts to playful vignettes about Pat at a wedding and a humorous tale of General Shufter and brave soldiers, ending with an anecdote about Mayor Tom L Johnson and a garden villa dog pun.
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Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
Johnson
Humorous Vignettes From Aos of Readings And Legends
A collection of humorous anecdotes and dialogues. A San Francisco cook named Wang Hang Ho humorously becomes John. Harvard professor Pierce prompts Nabobs jibe at a town meeting. A ministerial trial in Connecticut features a Welsh sermon with a Hebrew twist. A nobleman’s daughter learns to say Your Grace while a duke visits. Angelo’s quips on painting as wife and child. Senator Pettus helps a very old man cross a Washington street.
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General Shufter
Cisson Wheel
Gald
Minneapolis Journal
San Francisco
Blu
Wang Hang Ho
John
Melville Landon
London
Tommy
Pierce
Harvard
Harvard College
Connecticut
England
Senator Pettus
Alabama
Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington
Heross
Mr. Pettus
Twin Hells prison show draws packed houses
A Wichita crowd saw Witherell s Twin Hells at the Park and Hubbell theatres. Reviews praised its vivid depictions of prison life and the moral lesson for youth while noting strong audience reception and high public interest across Kansas and nearby states. Tickets ranged 10 20 and 30 cents.
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Veka
Kansas
Wichita
Iowa
Missouri
Tao
Witherell
Hella
St. Clair County
Osceola Democrat
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Red Cross
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Nebe’s Shoe Store
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Toler Theatre
Hogie
Park Theatre
Haunibai Daily Journal
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