Eggs by motor truck boost Vineland Millville trades
Farmers in Vineland and Millville New Jersey began shipping eggs directly by motor truck to New York City, arranging loads with a Philadelphia carrier. The first trip covered 140 miles in 15 hours with no breakage, earning dealers a premium for faster arrival and better condition. The venture plans to expand to fruits vegetables poultry and other products.
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Vineland
Millville
New Jersey
New York City
Bureau of Markets of the United States Depertment of Agriculture
New York
Philadelphia
Train for Hard Work Sparking Town Fitness During Wheat Harvest
A call to start physical training classes to harden local men for emergency farm labor. Kansas City led with a “loyal physical fitness” program weeks before harvest, spreading statewide as towns organized men to volunteer for field work. Physical readiness is urged to support war effort and sustain fighters at the front.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Uncle Sam
Kansas mobilizes urban volunteers for harvest labor
Kansas answered the call for increased food production by expanding wheat planting and organizing a state-wide campaign to recruit town volunteers for farm labor during harvest. The effort, backed by Uncle Sam, aims to mobilize urban residents to support field work as the harvest begins following a Kansas City conference.
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Kansas
Uncle Sam
Kansas City
Weed control through timing of treatment
The note discusses targeting weed eradication by understanding its reproduction and life history to determine the most susceptible period for effective treatment. It emphasizes precise timing to maximize control.
America Wakes In War We Keep Our Unity
The article reflects on wartime patriotism and critique of unfit workers in government roles, endorses WE US OUR over YOU, celebrates German-Americans joining the war effort, and portrays America marching under leaders like Washington Lincoln and Grant toward a united war footing against militarism and the Kaiser.
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Washington
Critietam
Rudiger
Dunderhenda
Kuiser
Red Cross
Rudiger Am
Germany
United States
Hindenburg
Parmlo
Banc
Indianapolis
Indiana
America
Rosenkrans
Guilderstein
Hindendorf
Ludenburgh
Kaiser
Republic
World
Cimes
Franklin
Hamilton
Adams
Jefferson
Patrick Flenry
Francis Marion
Paul Jones
Harry Lee
Decatur
Madison
Scott
William Henry Harrison
Zachary Taylor
Lincoln
Grant
Sherman
Sheridan
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Interesting Facts From Early 20th Century Dispatches
A mix of brief items notes a gasoline engine dynamo in England, rain as a sanitary aid, wartime casualty estimates, automatic X-ray development for dentists, canal boat schedules, fresh Isle of Man herrings, ancient Carthaginian water sources, Britain’s coffee imports, Wisconsin wheat targets for 1918, US pulp production from mill waste, Australian rail odes via wireless, British South African recruits, Britain’s munition workshops, unused New York forest wood rotting due to sale bans.
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Great Britain
Wisconsin
United States
Australia
France
Flanders
New York
Noble Host of Work Inspires Endless March
Fragmentary quotation praises noble workers and their universal call for new labor and virtue. It envisions poets, kings, and builders united in a grand, irrepressible host marching forward since the world’s dawn, urging individual courage and enlistment in the cause. Carlyle appears as the attributed source.
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Shenton
Bath-garters
Georges
Bethink
Carlyle
Annual Cost of Highways and Rising Transport Burden
The article notes U.S. highway construction and maintenance cost over 800 million annually, with potential investment valued at 6.9 billion if capitalized at 5 percent. It contrasts 1906 and 1917 motor vehicle growth, road outlays rising from 30 million to about 300 million, and highlights roads shifting from local utility to national importance. It cites President Wilson’s July 11, 1916 approval of a federal-aid road act authorizing 75 million for rural post roads and 10 million for forest road construction and maintenance.
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United States
Wilson
Carc
Building Roads in Alaska From 1905 to Present
Alaska has built 620 miles of wagon roads 629 miles of winter sled roads and 2 210 miles of trails since 1905. A motorcar road carried over 250 trucks and passenger cars by the end of the last fiscal year. Heavy narrow tired trucks cause frequent damage and maintenance troubles. A five mile hillside road was laid last summer with willow corduroy and gravel surfacing over six feet of gravel bed rock forty feet of clear ice and two feet of moss and tundra.
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Alaska
Board of Road Commissioners
Permanent road favored as cost saver and payoff
A columnist argues for permanent highways, saying rebuilding costs are avoided and the upfront expense pays off within a few years. He compares it to funding an annuity and insists money should be found to build permanent roads as a key good roads principle.
Poor Roads a Loss to Farmers Across the U S
Experts warn that 300 million dollars in real money escapes farmers annually due to bad roads. The piece critiques mispriorities in infrastructure and truck routes before proper road building, highlighting the broader economic drain on agriculture.
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United States
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Booth Tarkington
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Aston
Udiger
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Middle
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Une
Europe
Isle of Man
Tu‘ila
Carthage
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