Federal highway aid expands 75 million for states
The Federal Highway Act funds 75 million dollars for state road work and 15 million for national forest roads for the fiscal year ending 1922. States must match funds, with allocations by population area and rural route mileage. A minimum grant of 0.5 percent benefits small states. interstate and inter county rails divide the rest.
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Associated Press
Washington
Harding
Treasuries
Alabama
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Texas
Secretary of Agriculture
Bureau of Public Roads
Delaware
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont
State Highway Department
United States Department of Agriculture
Longest Span Planned for Detroit Windsor Bridge
Plans for an international suspension bridge to connect Detroit and Windsor promise the world’s longest single span at 1 802 feet. The project features double deck construction for streetcar and road traffic on top and rail on the lower deck, with completion targeted within six years from construction start.
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Detroit
Windsor
Quebec
Canada
United States
Detroit River
Michigan Central
Canadian Transit Company
American Transit Company
Railway Officials to Discuss Wages
New York officials from fifty four railroads east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio meet to outline living cost data and wage comparisons as carriers plan further pay reductions. They will decide if the wage dispute will be handled in a single conference or separate talks ahead of Railroad Labor Board action.
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New York
Mississippi
Ohio River
United States Railroad Labor Board
West Monroe Ads Feature Chili Prices and Mattress Deals
Friday notices promote King Leon's home chili at 50 cents per quart with delivery across the city. Griffin Studio touts new stand frames while Rose bushes sell at Phoenix Drug Store. MRS W B MILLER posts hunting ban on her property. L W Gresham Mattress Factory advertises 40 pound edge cotton mattresses at 4.75 with contact in West Monroe Louisiana.
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L. W. Gresham Mattress Factory
West Monroe
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Thousand Island
DeSiard
South Grand Street
Pollard’s Market
Allen Electric Co
South Grand St
del Monte
Help Yourself Grocery
DeSiard Street
Charles E. Fowler
George H. Pegram
Interborough Rapid Transit Co
William H. Burr
Coleonel C. M. Menserrat
Montreal
R. Young
University of Toronto
IT KE. Riggs
University of Michigan
Woman's Exchange
Albert Schepis
THE
Woman’s Exchange
South Grand ‘Street
Standard Gin CO
Bridge
Neal Moore
Griffin Studio
West Monroe Methodist Missionary Society
E. Ho Chapin
Say Whitman
Whitman
Crane
Drug Store of Service
Chase-Amman
Walker
Walker Brothers Grocery Co
Miller & Hart
Ember
King
Leon
Phoenix Drug Store
W. B. Miller
Dainty
Gardner
Copeland
Groceteria
Star Brand
Smith Brothers, Ltd
Green’s Market
W. C
DeSiard St
Cash and Carry Grocery
W. L. Gordon
Old Stand
Wesson Oil
Acao
Saking
Snowdrift
Snowdrift - Wesson Oil
Polk
Reynolds
SIG Haas & Sons
PCE
Bilae
Monroe
Sixth and
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Monroe Feed CO
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