Poor U.S. Roads Costly Freight Hauls Compared With Europe
The article notes the United States has about 2.5 million miles of roads, most poor, with less than two percent first class. It compares U.S. road quality to Europe where roads cut freight costs, estimating wagon freight bills at two hundred fifty million dollars yearly savings if U.S. costs drop from 23 to 11 percent per ton mile.
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Ashington
United States
Europe
Germany
France
England
Interstate Commerce, Commission
Federal Sweep Seizes Opium Hauls Across Nation
Federal agents report major opium seizures in several cities, including about eight thousand dollars in DC illicit drug stock and nearly one hundred thousand dollars found in Terre Haute. Officials say interstate regulation is needed to curb manufacture and distribution, as supply chains extend across regions.
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Internal Revenue
District of Columbia
Terre Haute
Middle West
Congress
Mammoth Guns Guard Panama Canal Move to Pacific Forts
The 180 ton 16 inch coastal gun, now at Sandy Hook, will be moved to the Pacific end of the Panama Canal as part of a secret, underground defense system. Seven forts will guard the canal ends, with hidden mounts rising to fire.
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Mammoth
Panama Canal
Pacific
Sandy Hook
N. J
War Department
New York
Atlantic
Naval Academy tightens guest entry for dances
Officials restrict admittance to naval academy dances to invited guests only. Cards of invitation will be required and guest lists kept to avoid disturbances and temptations at large gatherings. The change aims to prevent unauthorized attendees and protect midshipmen from trouble.
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Naval Academy
Navy Department
Academy
Oklahoma Railway Depot Marvel Mathematician
Frank Humphries, a 29 year old illiterate Black man in Tulga Oklahoma, astonished businessmen by solving complex arithmetic instantly at the H K and T railway depot. He quit school after two weeks saying he knew more than the teacher. He correctly gave the cube of 357911 as 679,? and 10214 times 67% as 6944?. The questioner took five minutes to confirm with pencil and paper.
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Tulga
Okla
Frank “Humphries
Tulsa
Humphries
Frank
J.“M. Hall
Shinbone Graft Fixes Spine For Spokane Man
Spokane resident John Alness twenty five underwent a rare operation to correct spinal curvature. A five inch shinbone graft was inserted into his backbone after splitting vertebrae and securing the graft with surrounding tissue. Surgeons report the procedure a success and the patient is recovering.
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Spokane
Wash
John Alness
Alness
Man Returns After Fifteen-Year Tailor Truce
Cornelus Schroeder of Inman Kansas caused a rift by tearing his trousers fifteen years ago. He asked his wife and four daughters to mend them but fled after a quarrel. His daughter Lizzie Austin read a letter offering an apology and a ticket for him to visit. Schroeder, 73, later went to police headquarters and decided to return. His wife had died years earlier.
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Kansas City
Cornelus Schroeder
Inman
Kan
Schroeder
Lizzie Austin
Gage
Okla
Bride-to-be stays steadfast after car crash
Miss Mabel Willett, despite a broken arm from a automobile accident, refuses to let the injury delay her marriage to Raymond Edwards at Salints Westfield New Jersey. She says one broken arm or two could not interfere with her wedding plans.
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Salints
Westfield
N. J
Mabel Willett
Raymond Edwards
Miss Willett
Sioux City man claims egg eating title with 40 eggs
Sam Demibovitch of Sioux City drank forty raw eggs in seven minutes after breakfast to win $2. He now seeks a stake to attempt a 100-egg meal.
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Sioux City
Sam Demibovitch
Teacher denies breach suit as passive kiss giver
Winfield Fox, a Terre Haute school teacher, defends a $16 000 breach of promise suit by Elva Close. He says he was passive under her kisses and only took her to church often. he claims the affection was not mutual.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Winfield Fox
Elva Close
Mr. Fox
The Necklet Crisis at Broken Bow
Vivien and a colonial force race to avert tribal war over a sacred elk-tooth necklet. Flying Fox seizes power as Evening Star betrays the medicine man. Vivien juries exile with Flying Fox to banish Evening Star to the North country.
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Vivien
Broken Bow
Flying Fox
Broken Row
Vivian
Girl
Evening Star
Winter coal stock sparks tense exchange
A fragment shows a terse exchange about coal as one character boasted of winter supply while another pressed for payment. The dialogue hints at underlying disagreement but centers on practical concerns amid a hopeful mood.
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Naval Ball
Porter
Izola Forrester
Associated Literary Press
Vermont
Belle
Walted
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